<?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[The Frogs Asking for a KingThe Frogs, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent ambassadors to Jupiter entreating for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frogs Asking for a KingThe Frogs, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent ambassadors to Jupiter entreating for a King. Perceiving their simplicity, he cast down a huge log into the lake. The Frogs were terrified at the splash occasioned by its fall and hid themselves in the depths of the pool. But as soon as they realized that the huge log was motionless, they swam again to the top of the water, dismissed their fears, climbed up, and began squatting on it in contempt. After some time they began to think themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert a Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set over them another sovereign. He then gave them an Eel to govern them. When the Frogs discovered his easy good nature, they sent yet a third time to Jupiter to beg him to choose for them still another King. Jupiter, displeased with all their complaints, sent a Heron, who preyed upon the Frogs day by day till there were none left to croak upon the lake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I commend the team for staying in the game. Once Diablo put up five, it took the wind out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I commend the team for staying in the game. Once Diablo put up five, it took the wind out of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50360]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13536]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of [American] students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to explain or systemize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to explain or systemize a set of facts, and that no one has any claim to be considered as a serious rival to Darwin in the "discovery" of this theory who did not conduct his evolutionary studies upon a reasonably wide basis of facts. To have ideas, apercus, is not enough, and it is the overevalutation of such clever but uncontrolled guesses which is apt to produce the ludicrous fallacy of combination, in which fragments of the final theory are collected from widely scattered sources and are combined in such a way as to impugn the originality of him who was the first to see how such a synthesis was possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing dries sooner than a tear. [Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing dries sooner than a tear. [Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58792</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[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45687]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more references in the Koran thanthe Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus.-Julia W-. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16728]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more references in the Koran thanthe Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus.-Julia W-.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no index of character so sure as the voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60932]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no index of character so sure as the voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1327]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10220]]></link><description><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees,  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees,  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63657]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Oxen and the Axle-TreesA heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Oxen and the Axle-TreesA heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen. The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out. Those who suffer most cry out the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An election tells how many of your supporters are alive, and a war tells how many are willing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13693]]></link><description><![CDATA[An election tells how many of your supporters are alive, and a war tells how many are willing to be dead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but the brave deserve the fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48948]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but the brave deserve the fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no shortage of stories that describe just horrendous upbringings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36945]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no shortage of stories that describe just horrendous upbringings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But an untimely grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18217]]></link><description><![CDATA[But an untimely grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real estate is a big concern, and we're going to have to watch it carefully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real estate is a big concern, and we're going to have to watch it carefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. [It., L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,  Seque, come il maestro fa il discente;   Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi e nipote.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2318]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels,   Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends,    And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down,     And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60643]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he cobbled and hammered from morning till dark, With the footgear to mend on his knees,  Stitching patches, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56210]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he cobbled and hammered from morning till dark, With the footgear to mend on his knees,  Stitching patches, or pegging on soles as he sang,   Out of tune, ancient catches and glees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes that's easier to do. They get excited about it - it's a novelty. The ones you swim over and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes that's easier to do. They get excited about it - it's a novelty. The ones you swim over and over again you don't always want to do that in back-to-back duals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60028]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bet your parents were proud of you, ... Even now, he has a bumper sticker on his truck showing off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bet your parents were proud of you, ... Even now, he has a bumper sticker on his truck showing off about collecting beer cans. Imagine. I have the beer can husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5625]]></link><description><![CDATA[In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick;  A metaphor taken--I have not the page aright--   From an ethical work by the Stagyrite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,  Mildly and soft the western breeze   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue,  Mildly and soft the western breeze   Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,    And the pleased lake, like maiden coy,     Trembled but dimpled not for joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made the wrong turn, especially on the second one. They were hard hit balls, but I'm not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made the wrong turn, especially on the second one. They were hard hit balls, but I'm not going to make excuses. I screwed up, and probably cost the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56789]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of its mentality- the projection of its conflicts, prejudice and specific ways of double-think onto the graceful sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He fought hard. But then I thought he had a good chance at winning this match; I didn't think it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39059]]></link><description><![CDATA[He fought hard. But then I thought he had a good chance at winning this match; I didn't think it was that big of an upset because he's a good little wrestler. I don't remember anyone ever beating him. He always beat himself because of the mistakes he made and the points he gave up. He's a good little athlete, probably pound for pound the best athlete in that high school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47161]]></link><description><![CDATA[A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [Ger., Was man in der Jugend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [Ger., Was man in der Jugend wunscht, hat man im Alter die Fulle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55005</guid></item></channel></rss>