<?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[Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31491]]></link><description><![CDATA[When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not worth a button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not worth a button.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fury itself supplies arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fury itself supplies arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is one Accipe, then twice to say, Dabo tibi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is one Accipe, then twice to say, Dabo tibi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're young, and I'm getting older every game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38344]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're young, and I'm getting older every game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knute Rockne liked bad loser. He said good losers lose too often.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess is it's not going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a small hobby, family farm. We have no intention of any other large animals, like cattle. Our pastures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42656]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a small hobby, family farm. We have no intention of any other large animals, like cattle. Our pastures are small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains. [Lat., Factum abiit; monumenta manent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains. [Lat., Factum abiit; monumenta manent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three  Had Rome been growing up to might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the calm and silent night! Seven hundred years and fifty-three  Had Rome been growing up to might   And now was queen of land and sea.    No sound was heard of clashing wars,     Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain;      Apollo, Pallas, Jove and Mars,       Held undisturbed their ancient reign,        In the solemn midnight,         Centuries ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49580]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks;  News from all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23339]]></link><description><![CDATA[He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks;  News from all nations lumbering at his back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51614]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands defauts.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doth appear you are a worthy judge; You know the law, your exposition  Hath been most sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23519]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doth appear you are a worthy judge; You know the law, your exposition  Hath been most sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy! [Fr., Adieu, plaisant pays de France! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy! [Fr., Adieu, plaisant pays de France!  O, ma patrie   La plus cherie,    Qui a nourrie ma jeune enfance!     Adieu, France--adieu, mes beaux jours.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doingordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doingordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to get behind any more. If we can possibly play, we'll play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33794]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to get behind any more. If we can possibly play, we'll play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How like the leper, with his own sad cry Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls!  That lonely bell set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4137]]></link><description><![CDATA[How like the leper, with his own sad cry Enforcing his own solitude, it tolls!  That lonely bell set in the rushing shoals,   To warn us from the place of jeopardy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46992]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46992</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[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47235]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this technology, we can now begin to gather reliable information on the movements, home range, and habitat of wolverines ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39744]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this technology, we can now begin to gather reliable information on the movements, home range, and habitat of wolverines in the Pacific Northwest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45541]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary peoplevisualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary peoplevisualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,  For daws to peck at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51435]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,  For daws to peck at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a warningheart attack inhis 30'safter a mealof macaroni and cheeseand big mac'sand macaroons.. but Godgave him a 2nd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17586]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a warningheart attack inhis 30'safter a mealof macaroni and cheeseand big mac'sand macaroons.. but Godgave him a 2nd chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the surrounding land surface. In the winter, the opposite happens. In winter the water remains warmer than the surrounding land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hangars were not destroyed from bomb damage but it brought back a lot of little memories of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hangars were not destroyed from bomb damage but it brought back a lot of little memories of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49352]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's going to a good team, but also to a team where they do things differently. It may take him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42470]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's going to a good team, but also to a team where they do things differently. It may take him some time to adjust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wife is the key of the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49932]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wife is the key of the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47790</guid></item></channel></rss>