<?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[When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62067]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is sorrow's salve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is sorrow's salve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12649]]></link><description><![CDATA[For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather be right than be President. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather be right than be President.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34426]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.   - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.   - quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third man in the ring makes boxing possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4792]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my only one!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60510]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6034]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. More youth quotes coming soon. If you have a quote, proverb or saying about youth that you would like to be posted on this page please use the 'Submit a Quote' form below. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is somewhat ingrained now regarding bird flu, but there is not a sea change taking place. People suspect there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is somewhat ingrained now regarding bird flu, but there is not a sea change taking place. People suspect there are risks on the horizon but not so material just yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wiseman speaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22171]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wiseman speaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17806]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity. . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity. . . . I love the T-shirt as an anti-status symbol, putting rich and poor on the same level in a sheath of white cotton that cancels the distinctions of caste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask of specific progress, I'd say we are committed to remain politically engaged, they had be prepared to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31257]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask of specific progress, I'd say we are committed to remain politically engaged, they had be prepared to add political impetus required to reach an agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7085]]></link><description><![CDATA[God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That baby was all I had. That was my world. When my world was taken away, I was crushed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28992]]></link><description><![CDATA[That baby was all I had. That was my world. When my world was taken away, I was crushed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20460]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be a foole then a knave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be a foole then a knave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11404]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People only see what they are prepared to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60824]]></link><description><![CDATA[People only see what they are prepared to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56892]]></link><description><![CDATA[In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a crisis for me. It was a sad time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30499]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a crisis for me. It was a sad time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12585]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out  Full twenty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out  Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow,   That gave this gentle name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They think they have God Almighty by the toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41135]]></link><description><![CDATA[They think they have God Almighty by the toe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14396]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice. [Lat., Avidos vicinum funus ut aegros  Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit;   Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria saepe    Absterrent vitiis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little bit unsure, careful. It's funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42759]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They need to get over these hurdles with NTP to compete in the marketplace. RIM is now dealing with these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30413]]></link><description><![CDATA[They need to get over these hurdles with NTP to compete in the marketplace. RIM is now dealing with these legal issues instead of focusing their own resources to compete against rivals like Microsoft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new organization will further enhance the regional identity of our electric distribution businesses and provide a greater focus on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new organization will further enhance the regional identity of our electric distribution businesses and provide a greater focus on the electric generation business. The leaders of these business units bring a high level of knowledge and experience to their new positions with the common objective to deliver outstanding service to their customers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you seek it, you cannot find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21840]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you seek it, you cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person having more knowledge will have an impressive frame of mind, whereas a person having wisdom will have an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62983]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person having more knowledge will have an impressive frame of mind, whereas a person having wisdom will have an expressive frame of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ignore the small things -- the kite flies because of its tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ignore the small things -- the kite flies because of its tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23889</guid></item></channel></rss>