<?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[A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thereby hangs a tale. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55709]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thereby hangs a tale. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s impudence, ask yourself at once, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂCan the world exist without impudent people?ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â It cannot; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41480]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s impudence, ask yourself at once, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂCan the world exist without impudent people?ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   I belong to the "Great-God Party", and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   I belong to the "Great-God Party", and will have nothing to do with the "Little-God Party." Christ does not want nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17155]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do a perfectly unselfish act for selfish motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not planning to go 24 hours, but we are taking a step in that direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41662]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not planning to go 24 hours, but we are taking a step in that direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's small choice in rotten apples. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening? [Lat., An id exploratum cuiquam potest esse, quomodo sese habitarum sit corpus, non dico ad annum sed ad vesperam?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13032]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your drug addiction?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognize the duty of governments to combat crime, but this is a knee-jerk response -- it shows that China's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognize the duty of governments to combat crime, but this is a knee-jerk response -- it shows that China's 'Strike Hard' crime campaign mentality is still prevalent, at least in some parts of the country. There is no evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than other punishments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  It is of the greatest importance for the soul to go to prayer with confidence, and such a pure and disinterested love as seeks nothing from the Father but the ability to please Him and to do His will; for a child who only proportions his diligence to his hope of reward renders himself unworthy of all reward. Go, then, to prayer, not that ye may enjoy spiritual delights, but that ye may be full or empty, just as it pleaseth God. This will preserve you in an evenness of spirit, either in desertion or in consolation, and will prevent your being surprised at dryness, or the apparent repulses of Him who is altogether Love. Constant prayer is to keep the heart always right towards God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4276]]></link><description><![CDATA[My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They worked closely with the industry, with experts, and I think they've come up with a good start. Finally, we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32395]]></link><description><![CDATA[They worked closely with the industry, with experts, and I think they've come up with a good start. Finally, we're getting there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farm Safety is important all year long, but we are proud to help Farm Bureau promote safety during spring planting. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farm Safety is important all year long, but we are proud to help Farm Bureau promote safety during spring planting. Farm families need to be reminded about slowing down and taking proper safety precautions. By working together, we are keeping rural kids safe and healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are trying to make Omri Sharon into a demon of the political system. What you see here is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34782]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are trying to make Omri Sharon into a demon of the political system. What you see here is a catalog of the avarice of central committee members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I asked for was a written and verbal apology from Ms. Gossman, and I didn't get it, ... I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40108]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I asked for was a written and verbal apology from Ms. Gossman, and I didn't get it, ... I have contacted a lawyer, and the housing board is responsible for what she did. You are all three responsible, and you are going to be served. She needs to be taken off the board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great that they gave me something to act other than, 'Hi, dear, how are you doing?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29444]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great that they gave me something to act other than, 'Hi, dear, how are you doing?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do everything with so much love in your heart that you wouldnever want to do it any other way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do everything with so much love in your heart that you wouldnever want to do it any other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a better use of our resources to inform consumers what to do about fish than spending money and time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a better use of our resources to inform consumers what to do about fish than spending money and time testing more fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25025]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through the day easier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark!  Thy note is more loud and free   Because there lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24099]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark!  Thy note is more loud and free   Because there lies safe for thee    A little nest on the ground."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44815]]></link><description><![CDATA[An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [Lat., Etiam singulorum fatigatio quamlibet se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [Lat., Etiam singulorum fatigatio quamlibet se rudi modulatione solatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57226</guid></item></channel></rss>