<?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[Well, whatever, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, whatever,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11811]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30984]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's another way, perhaps, of an art poverty; one has to impoverish one's mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink  What writers think?   Oh, wisely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink  What writers think?   Oh, wisely write,    That pages white     Be not the worse for ink and thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a hard loss, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30617]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a hard loss,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25342]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10990]]></link><description><![CDATA[And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale;  And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale;  And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet   Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier isle,    Protective of his young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46467]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture, with us, ends in headache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture, with us, ends in headache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19076]]></link><description><![CDATA[There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to take this whole tournament one game at a time. We knew, going into this game, that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35789]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to take this whole tournament one game at a time. We knew, going into this game, that we couldn't take Sweden lightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have done well in China . They think once they are on the Nasdaq, they've arrived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30801]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have done well in China . They think once they are on the Nasdaq, they've arrived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time I've ever had any in my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16760]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know you can first. How comes later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66858]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know you can first. How comes later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew,  For we're booming down on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail,   We're sagging south on the Long Trail, the trail that is always new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48580]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26226]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state  Empties itself, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54512]]></link><description><![CDATA[A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state  Empties itself, as dot an inland brook   Into the main of waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little given seasonably excuses a great gift. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49046]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little given seasonably excuses a great gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's hard enough for Zach to be finding himself. To get himself into counts like that is not going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30298]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's hard enough for Zach to be finding himself. To get himself into counts like that is not going to make his job any easier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. -- Gary Cooper, on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. -- Gary Cooper, on his decision to not take the leading role in Gone With The Wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57057]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world seems ... a little less funny without you in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world seems ... a little less funny without you in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong  As proofs of holy writ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong  As proofs of holy writ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should do whatever we can. If you can donate 5 cents, $1,000 or $100,000, we appreciate it. Or, at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38121]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should do whatever we can. If you can donate 5 cents, $1,000 or $100,000, we appreciate it. Or, at least, put them into your prayers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9216]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused. -Anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42573]]></link><description><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time make a strong fashion statement when paired with jeans or a skirt. They're not for the shy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16437]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just playing real solid defensively right now. The kids are rotating really well in our bunt coverage and defensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39832]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just playing real solid defensively right now. The kids are rotating really well in our bunt coverage and defensive coverage. Alyssa has really stepped it up, both at the plate and pitching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some salt of our youth in us. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55360]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some salt of our youth in us. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/432]]></link><description><![CDATA[There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an interesting character, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39842]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an interesting character,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wants to talk to students and make them aware of what's going to happen come July 1 to their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31774]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wants to talk to students and make them aware of what's going to happen come July 1 to their [federal] student aid, he wants to tell them about the legislation that he's introduced to reverse those changes that are about to hit and he also wants to get them energized and mobilized to fight the changes if they feel they're being wronged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43245]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43245</guid></item></channel></rss>