<?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[Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far, it probably isn't gonna get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I cry at night because I wonder how my family will get on without her. She was the glue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I cry at night because I wonder how my family will get on without her. She was the glue that held our family together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!  Which were so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!  Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit,   As since, she will vouchsafe no other wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . by evil report and good report . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44453]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . by evil report and good report . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, the draft is ready, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, the draft is ready,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31465]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every guy on the floor can score. Everyone can shoot. We can all take it to the basket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every guy on the floor can score. Everyone can shoot. We can all take it to the basket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bart is a tremendously talented individual with an exceptional intellect, coupled with a strong work ethic and a healthy dollop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bart is a tremendously talented individual with an exceptional intellect, coupled with a strong work ethic and a healthy dollop of grounded common sense. He brings another well-needed executive dimension to our management team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11577]]></link><description><![CDATA[No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves. Chinese proverb -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching Independence Day with President Clinton]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52170]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite...You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   And woo the public eye.    Something I must invent and paint;     But oh my wit is not      Like one of those kind substantives       That answer Who and What?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20509]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trade knows neither friends or kindred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trade knows neither friends or kindred]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13575]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we did a great job and our kids wrestled well. My hat's off to San Clemente ---- they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we did a great job and our kids wrestled well. My hat's off to San Clemente ---- they were banged up and their kids still came out with a lot of heart and put it all on the line. I have a lot of respect for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does,and about two years after he thinks he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does,and about two years after he thinks he does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62149]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be a painter or ploughman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55389]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65841]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who multiplies riches multiplies cares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61462]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a project that we've been trying to get off the ground for some time now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32163]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a project that we've been trying to get off the ground for some time now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57817]]></link><description><![CDATA[They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64613]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16389]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66073]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother was very happy to have been set free. He was not expecting this decision. He was writing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28435]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother was very happy to have been set free. He was not expecting this decision. He was writing a new Bible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7029</guid></item></channel></rss>