<?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[Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men -- bring them softness, teach them how to cry. -Joan Baez.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I did everything by the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to save our country!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100   There are great limits upon the human imagination. We can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100   There are great limits upon the human imagination. We can only rearrange the elements God has provided. No one can create a new primary color, a third sex, a fourth dimension, or a completely original animal. Even by writing a book, planting a garden, or begetting a child, we never create anything in the strict sense; we only take part in God's creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our grandly business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well-adjusted make poor prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well-adjusted make poor prophets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50541]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59816]]></link><description><![CDATA[For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agreement exists in disagreement. [Lat., Mansit concordia discors.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agreement exists in disagreement. [Lat., Mansit concordia discors.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll be with us when training camp opens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32640]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll be with us when training camp opens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57574]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3120]]></link><description><![CDATA[The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pansies? You praise the ones that grow today Here in the garden; had you seen the place  When Sutherland ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pansies? You praise the ones that grow today Here in the garden; had you seen the place  When Sutherland was living!   Here they grew,    From blue to deeper blue, in midst of each     A golden dazzle like a glimmering star,      Each broader, bigger than a silver crown;       While here the weaver sat, his labor done,        Watching his azure pets and rearing them,         Until they seem'd to know his step and touch,          And stir beneath his smile like living things:           The very sunshine loved them, and would lie            Here happy, coming early, lingering late,             Because they were so fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27988]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We realized we were impacting these families more than we needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39774]]></link><description><![CDATA[We realized we were impacting these families more than we needed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51656]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know the only reason I made it anywhere in hockey was because I was a fighter. I know that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42350]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know the only reason I made it anywhere in hockey was because I was a fighter. I know that was my role. I made it to the NHL doing that. If I don't fight again in my life that doesn't mean I'm not a tough guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As seniors, we've been through two coaches. We just kept playing basketball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28583]]></link><description><![CDATA[As seniors, we've been through two coaches. We just kept playing basketball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27296]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most unglamorous picture of war I've ever read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most unglamorous picture of war I've ever read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'"NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing. It's unbelievable. I'm speechless. I'm so happy right now. We came together as a team, and we did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing. It's unbelievable. I'm speechless. I'm so happy right now. We came together as a team, and we did it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our target is to find an academy player and bring him through to the first team in two years' time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our target is to find an academy player and bring him through to the first team in two years' time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage  War with the lines ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage  War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon,   Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth    After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63024]]></link><description><![CDATA[No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine ever paies for his loding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine ever paies for his loding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46093]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This girl is a rebel with a cause to challenge the mundane. She's Brigitte Bardot meets Pink. Her hair is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32072]]></link><description><![CDATA[This girl is a rebel with a cause to challenge the mundane. She's Brigitte Bardot meets Pink. Her hair is high-maintenance, but when it's time to put it all together, it's a devil-may-care attitude to create the finished look. She's not satisfied with one style and likes to keep her court guessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is the article of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is the article of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig   And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig."    "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig,     And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53657]]></link><description><![CDATA[In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's only the giving that makes you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36663]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's only the giving that makes you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is never to let them find out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nuclear waste is a heavy burden to lay on our children and their children and their children's children and their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nuclear waste is a heavy burden to lay on our children and their children and their children's children and their children's children's children and their children's children's children's children...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9599</guid></item></channel></rss>