<?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[Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16982]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16503]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is too much to wish on anybody, but it's true that our dot-com yuppies think a depression is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62609]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is too much to wish on anybody, but it's true that our dot-com yuppies think a depression is just a pothole in the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and beneath,   Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires    And gleaming columns radiant in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/661]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54443]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save when the good man died.  [Fr., Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira   Que le peuple, qui l'enterra pleura.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26197]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fishermen will snatch it out in his own good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great   In that City of By-and-by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was a really good win for them. I thought going into singles we had a ton of momentum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37146]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was a really good win for them. I thought going into singles we had a ton of momentum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot  Climb in her throat, and with her feet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot  Climb in her throat, and with her feet unseen   Crushed the wild passion out against the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52695]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24498]]></link><description><![CDATA[God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Smith and his penny both are black. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Smith and his penny both are black.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows in the dang thing so it can be used?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24182]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom,  A difficult journey to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom,  A difficult journey to a splendid tomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone could have gotten where they are by making a few wrong choices. Its very exciting to watch them gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone could have gotten where they are by making a few wrong choices. Its very exciting to watch them gain recovery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man knows he is young while he is young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62581]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man knows he is young while he is young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64511]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61781]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep telling people that big money will not win this race. I have been everywhere, been through every neighborhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep telling people that big money will not win this race. I have been everywhere, been through every neighborhood I could. This is where everybody's missing the boat. They don't have a clue about what's going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45932]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell that to the Marines--the sailors won't believe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell that to the Marines--the sailors won't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Some people want to see God with their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460  Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love their cow -- for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage. Indeed, I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. You can imagine how valuable this system would be if you were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it. You can imagine how valuable this system would be if you were aquatic, because water is so conductive. But it doesn't work on land - air doesn't conduct electricity as well. When it happens, it's called a lightning bolt and you don't need special receptors to sense it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61952]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is freedom lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is freedom lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/544]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is applicable to all facets of life: a competency that you can learn to expand your perspective, set the context of a goal, understand the dynamics of human behavior and take the initiative to get to where you want to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38442</guid></item></channel></rss>