<?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[If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58014]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29550]]></link><description><![CDATA[However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay away from the coronation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19095]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay away from the coronation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18626]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "How will I get off?". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "How will I get off?".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alex takes up a lot of cage and he plays good angles. He also makes some nice outlet passes on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alex takes up a lot of cage and he plays good angles. He also makes some nice outlet passes on the transition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58248]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   Love is careful of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   Love is careful of little things, of circumstances and measures, and of little accidents; not allowing to itself any infirmity which it strives not to master, aiming at what it cannot yet reach, desiring to be of an angelic purity, and of a perfect innocence, and a seraphical fervor, and fears every image of offense; is as much afflicted at an idle word as some at an act of adultery, and will not allow to itself so much anger as will disturb a child, nor endure the impurity of a dream. And this is the curiosity and niceness of divine love: this is the fear of God, and is the daughter and production of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Huntsman and the FishermanA huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Huntsman and the FishermanA huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden with fish. The Huntsman wished to have the fish, and their owner experienced an equal longing for the contents of the game-bag. They quickly agreed to exchange the produce of their day's sport. Each was so well pleased with his bargain that they made for some time the same exchange day after day. Finally a neighbor said to them, If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy by frequent use the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to retain the fruits of his own sport. Abstain and enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy, twice happy, you who dwell in the country, if you only knew the pleasures which surround you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can show you 200 or 300 houses that need work done on it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can show you 200 or 300 houses that need work done on it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24227]]></link><description><![CDATA[…the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero…]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't put equipment on your gravestone.*Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/670]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't put equipment on your gravestone.*Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing great on growth on sales taxes so far. We expected this number to fall, but it hasn't fallen yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28398]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon agoal or goals which they really believe in, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon agoal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really committhemselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65503]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13351]]></link><description><![CDATA[For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're awful glad that the taxpayers and the voters will have an opportunity to vote on this. I think they'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're awful glad that the taxpayers and the voters will have an opportunity to vote on this. I think they'll grab it just like a drowning man would grab a flotation ring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13710]]></link><description><![CDATA[True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been great to have an all-American sweep, ... but I think that this shows how strong the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been great to have an all-American sweep, ... but I think that this shows how strong the Americans are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This moment contains all moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42932]]></link><description><![CDATA[This moment contains all moments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look forward to the opportunities when they come. The baseball is little more interesting because of the DH. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look forward to the opportunities when they come. The baseball is little more interesting because of the DH. It is a power league.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54898]]></link><description><![CDATA[In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that they have been consummate villains. Stavano bene; per star meglio, stanno qui.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48957]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11407]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved--and not the reverse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her voice changed like a bird's: There grew more of the music, and less of the words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her voice changed like a bird's: There grew more of the music, and less of the words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think their response has been very measured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think their response has been very measured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentle houswife marres the houshold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49024]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentle houswife marres the houshold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The living need more charity than the dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The living need more charity than the dead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60314]]></link><description><![CDATA[A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4633]]></link><description><![CDATA["Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From our point of view, it's not just recognizing customers that might have a problem with gambling, it's also understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29266]]></link><description><![CDATA[From our point of view, it's not just recognizing customers that might have a problem with gambling, it's also understanding ways to solve the problem as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29266</guid></item></channel></rss>