<?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[Innovators are inevitably controversial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innovators are inevitably controversial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's a fabulous golf course. It's a great golf course to play match play on, and it's so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's a fabulous golf course. It's a great golf course to play match play on, and it's so easy for the fans to walk around and see other holes. It's a great venue for this event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We picked Indiana as our location for many reasons, one of which is soybean availability, access to transportation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34592]]></link><description><![CDATA[We picked Indiana as our location for many reasons, one of which is soybean availability, access to transportation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52944]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high  The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay alert, stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay alert, stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hindsight is an exact science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hindsight is an exact science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64558]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49030]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good pay-master starts not at assurances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/782]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31024]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A number of members of our local government, administration and local clergy will all go in and be guest readers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A number of members of our local government, administration and local clergy will all go in and be guest readers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23305]]></link><description><![CDATA[A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exactmeasure of the height to which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exactmeasure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live and Let Die ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live and Let Die]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a two-second call. There was no extended conversation. I don't understand the need to tell an untruth when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35631]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a two-second call. There was no extended conversation. I don't understand the need to tell an untruth when you have already lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59993]]></link><description><![CDATA[If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52764]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street;  While you are emptying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street;  While you are emptying your colloquial pack,   The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51744]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider  Their passions, and are dext'rous; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4899]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider  Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features   Are brought up, others by a warlike leader;    Some by a place--as tend their years or natures;     The most by ready cash--but all have prices,      From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64135]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me  The pang of all the partings gone,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45577]]></link><description><![CDATA[She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me  The pang of all the partings gone,   And partings yet to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday   I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy Scriptures, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday   I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy Scriptures, nor have them translated into the vulgar tongues. I would wish that all women -- girls even -- would read the Gospels and the letters of Paul. I wish that they were translated into all languages of all people. To make them understood is surely the first step. It may be that they might be ridiculed by many, but some would take them to heart. I long that the husbandman should sing portions of them to himself as he follows the plough, that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveller should beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The valuable assistance of Germany in this matter demonstrates that the war on terrorism is global, and together we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The valuable assistance of Germany in this matter demonstrates that the war on terrorism is global, and together we will work with our allies to ensure that terrorist acts are prevented and that justice is done,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of our guys can make those scrappy plays. We've come to expect the defensive effort because those guys just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35475]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of our guys can make those scrappy plays. We've come to expect the defensive effort because those guys just scrap. If you just watch the game you can gloss over Trey's hustling plays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3902]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;  Whom neither hopes deceive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;  Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,   But lives at peace, within himself content;    In thought, or act, accountable to none     But to himself, and to the gods alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11719]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221   Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People mistake their limitations for high standards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15433]]></link><description><![CDATA[People mistake their limitations for high standards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24362]]></link><description><![CDATA[In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13247]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure. [To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49991]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure. [To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19424]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20516]]></link><description><![CDATA[To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. [Fr., L'Art supreme  Seule a l'eternite   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3179]]></link><description><![CDATA[High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. [Fr., L'Art supreme  Seule a l'eternite   Et le buste    Survit la cite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58631</guid></item></channel></rss>