<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Call a spade a spade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call a spade a spade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sin confessed is half forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56406]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sin confessed is half forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57189]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he sang every night as he went to bed. 'Let us be happy down here below: the living should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35620]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he sang every night as he went to bed. 'Let us be happy down here below: the living should live, though the dead be dead.' Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your spirit is the true shield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your spirit is the true shield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I say 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mind own man since.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pouring oil on troubled water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pouring oil on troubled water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:  Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire:   Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It is of no use to say that Christ, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It is of no use to say that Christ, as exhibited in the Gospels, is not historical, and that we know not how much of what is admirable has been super-added by the tradition of his followers. Who among his disciples or among their proselytes was capable of inventing the sayings of Jesus or of imagining the life and character revealed in the Gospels? Certainly not the fishermen of Galilee; as certainly not St. Paul, whose character and idiosyncrasies were of a totally different sort; still less the early Christian writers, in whom nothing is more evident than that the good which was in them was all derived, as they always professed that it was derived, from the higher source.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not think that shoemaker ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56201]]></link><description><![CDATA[To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said: "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By them there sat the loving pelican, Whose young ones, poison'd by the serpent's sting,  With her own blood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46007]]></link><description><![CDATA[By them there sat the loving pelican, Whose young ones, poison'd by the serpent's sting,  With her own blood to life again doth bring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm voted player of the week one week and the next I'm sitting on the bench. It becomes very tempting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35175]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm voted player of the week one week and the next I'm sitting on the bench. It becomes very tempting to look ahead and I'm doing that right now. I have to make the best decision for myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not a team that typically is able to come back from a 10-point deficit. We don't usually score ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not a team that typically is able to come back from a 10-point deficit. We don't usually score in bunches, but luckily, Darin got hot and brought us back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Yet both parties' campaign strategists believe Latino party affiliations and voting patterns can be changed.] The reason Democrats and Republicans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42437]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Yet both parties' campaign strategists believe Latino party affiliations and voting patterns can be changed.] The reason Democrats and Republicans will concentrate on Latinos is that they are in some ways a swing vote, ... Both Bush and Gore can try to make some inroads into the other candidate's Latino base.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, there's a new generation of linens with finishes that don't wrinkle as much, that seem much more organic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39127]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, there's a new generation of linens with finishes that don't wrinkle as much, that seem much more organic, much more natural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. [It., Il reo  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. [It., Il reo  D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce   La pena spetta.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that every person is born with talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that every person is born with talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to the true heart, however far from plain to the man whose desire to understand goes ahead of his obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way the market works, but this is an unusual year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30661]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way the market works, but this is an unusual year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   There is no defect in Scripture, so anyone may "have the light of his natural understanding so completed... that there can be no want of needful instruction" for any good work God would have that person do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to go [back to the moon]. But we don't want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30921]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to go [back to the moon]. But we don't want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25806]]></link><description><![CDATA[In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is a game of inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go,  The swing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27343]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go,  The swing of Justice deals the mightier blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I 'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I 'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. [Mathew]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy. [Mathew].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really, they should go back to school and learn something new and use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really, they should go back to school and learn something new and use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1120]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33122]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface of her talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42880]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be the change we wish to see in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21094]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be the change we wish to see in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26704]]></link><description><![CDATA[A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind. [Lat., Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26220</guid></item></channel></rss>