<?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[Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -Pearl Bailey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14794]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -Pearl Bailey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61316]]></link><description><![CDATA[With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15572]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coincidence is logical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coincidence is logical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60231]]></link><description><![CDATA[To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? Can the loving wife in Heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in Hell? I tell]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before  You sneer, and I assure you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before  You sneer, and I assure you this is true,   For I have found it answer--so may you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24148]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution  Is sicklied o'er with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution  Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,   And enterprises of great pitch and moment,    With this regard their currents turn awry,     And lose the name of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In whatever place you meet me, Postumus, you cry out immediately, and your very first words are, "How do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14067]]></link><description><![CDATA[In whatever place you meet me, Postumus, you cry out immediately, and your very first words are, "How do you do?" You say this, even if you meet me ten times in one single hour: you, Postumus, have nothing, I suppose, to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set a thief to catch a thief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a thief to catch a thief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11777]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, "If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky." Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44265]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30296]]></link><description><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it anyway.' He started throwing the breaking ball with the fastball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was such a gentle, fine person. One thing about Zeal ? he didn't want to make people mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31858]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was such a gentle, fine person. One thing about Zeal ? he didn't want to make people mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his houl is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7460]]></link><description><![CDATA[By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his houl is laid bare. If he regards Christ with love, even with wistful yearning, for him there is hope; but if in Christ he sees nothing lovely he has condemned himself. He who was sent in love has become to the man, judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. - "The Liberty Song". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. - "The Liberty Song".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When his heart is glad Of the full harvest, I will speak to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51724]]></link><description><![CDATA[When his heart is glad Of the full harvest, I will speak to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48579]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is only as good as what he loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25876]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is only as good as what he loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11814]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49319]]></link><description><![CDATA[He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've agreed on a text. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39013]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've agreed on a text.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally I feel we've got the cart before the horse. We need to identify: Do we need to move the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally I feel we've got the cart before the horse. We need to identify: Do we need to move the town clerk's office?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53728]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8175]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest  That best becomes the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest  That best becomes the table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her pretty feet Like snails did creep  A little out, and then,   As if they played at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her pretty feet Like snails did creep  A little out, and then,   As if they played at bo-peep    Did soon draw in agen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14237]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10748]]></link><description><![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn  When Christ for all shall risen be,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13145]]></link><description><![CDATA[O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn  When Christ for all shall risen be,   And in all hearts new-born!    That Pentecost when utterance clear     To all men shall be given,      When all shall say My Brother here,       And hear My Son in heaven!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13145</guid></item></channel></rss>