<?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[The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a lot of courage- -to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the voice of men shall call, "He is fallen like us all,  Though the weapon of the Lord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14088]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the voice of men shall call, "He is fallen like us all,  Though the weapon of the Lord was in his hand:"   And thine epitaph shall be--    "He was wretched ev'n as we;"     And thy tomb may be unhonoured in the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13132]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Made no more bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Made no more bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53603]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46730]]></link><description><![CDATA[In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely. -Kim Lyons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman of 35 thinks of having children. A man of 35 thinks of Dating children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11104]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman of 35 thinks of having children. A man of 35 thinks of Dating children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4167]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, the fragmentation is going to make it tougher for them [broadcasters] to hold on to their share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, the fragmentation is going to make it tougher for them [broadcasters] to hold on to their share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But at the submicroscopic level, specks of matter scattered through a vast emptiness have such incredible density and weight, and are linked to one another by such powerful forces, that together they produce all the properties of concrete, cast iron and solid rock. In much the same way, specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are, and on how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59952]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. Exclaim no more against it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. Exclaim no more against it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival of twenty asses laden with drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor deer, quoth he, thou makest a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor deer, quoth he, thou makest a testament As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had too much. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For NASA, space is still a high priority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9346]]></link><description><![CDATA[For NASA, space is still a high priority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Add to golden numbers golden numbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Add to golden numbers golden numbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15372]]></link><description><![CDATA[No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place. [Lat., Nulla vis humana vel virtus meruisse unquam potuit, ut, quod praescripsit fatalis ordo, non fiat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55837]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62593]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is low in the index, and probably it makes sense to collapse the dual-listed structure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is low in the index, and probably it makes sense to collapse the dual-listed structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had an opportunity and it just didn't happen. We were in good shape in overtime, it just didn't go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34131]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had an opportunity and it just didn't happen. We were in good shape in overtime, it just didn't go our way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice to get everyone playing time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice to get everyone playing time,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42233]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is True Evil in this World, it Lies in the Heart of Mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26240]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is True Evil in this World, it Lies in the Heart of Mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like champagne. When you listen to it, you start to sway with the tune. It works as well today ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31583]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like champagne. When you listen to it, you start to sway with the tune. It works as well today as it ever did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus we rust Life's iron chain  Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8397]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus we rust Life's iron chain  Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep,  And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind  And break the heart of stone. And every human heart that breaks,  In prison-cell or yard, Is as that broken box that gave  Its treasure to the Lord, And filled the unclean leper's house  With the scent of costliest nard. Ah! happy they whose hearts can break  And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan  And cleanse his soul from sin? How else but through a broken heart  May Lord Christ enter in?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're getting 184 million a year, and they are only spending about 6 million a year for maintenance. More of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37882]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're getting 184 million a year, and they are only spending about 6 million a year for maintenance. More of that should be spent to maintain the buildings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60922]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without emphasis, and lays stress on what is deeply felt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The women also ... are given a quiz asking them what's their primary form of contraception and their second form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The women also ... are given a quiz asking them what's their primary form of contraception and their second form of contraception, and it has to match up to what the practitioner said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sublime and ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step below the sublime makes the ridiculous and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10306]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16743</guid></item></channel></rss>