<?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["Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43437]]></link><description><![CDATA["Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23378]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her physical-education teacher in junior high was always impressed with her running talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18648]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of Apple's advertising is consistently above average. And more often than not, it's world class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of Apple's advertising is consistently above average. And more often than not, it's world class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;  And all who told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;  And all who told it added something new.   And all who heard it made enlargements too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1414]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17487]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27319]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41092]]></link><description><![CDATA[We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immediate access to Kosovo,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the first word that stuck in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the first word that stuck in his head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the great right of an excessive wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62457]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the great right of an excessive wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882   Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you yourself shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are violets blue, For our sweetness found  Careless in the mossy shades,   Looking on the ground. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60712]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are violets blue, For our sweetness found  Careless in the mossy shades,   Looking on the ground.    Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,--     Such our breath and blueness is.   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities that's huge progress. We sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42527]]></link><description><![CDATA[For them to begin to see ACS as a more positive presence in the communities that's huge progress. We sit now right on the cusp of losing that if we're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerability. This means that, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, [our] leading indicators clearly show that the U.S. economy is in a window of vulnerability. This means that, depending on the course of oil prices and geopolitical events, the economy can be easily tipped into a new recession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44029]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Frogs AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As hewas crossing through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Frogs AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As hewas crossing through the water he lost his footing, stumbled andfell, and not being able to rise on account of his load, groanedheavily. Some Frogs frequenting the pool heard his lamentation,and said, What would you do if you had to live here always as wedo, when you make such a fuss about a mere fall into the water?Men often bear little grievances with less courage thanthey do large misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good laugh is sunshine in the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63987]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good laugh is sunshine in the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion.(not meant to glorify carnivorous practice). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion.(not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15612]]></link><description><![CDATA[A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. [Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. [Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam quae metuant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62815]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He smiles, and sleeps!--sleep on And smile, thou little, young inheritor  Of a world scarce less young: sleep on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3627]]></link><description><![CDATA[He smiles, and sleeps!--sleep on And smile, thou little, young inheritor  Of a world scarce less young: sleep on and smile!   Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering    And innocent!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18895]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  If, when God sends judgments upon others, we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  If, when God sends judgments upon others, we do not take warning and example by them; if instead of reflecting upon ourselves and questioning our ways we fall to censuring others; if we will pervert the meaning of God's providences and will not understand the design and intention of them; then we leave God no other way to awaken us to a consideration of our evil ways but by pouring down his wrath upon our heads, so that he may convince us that we are sinners by the same argument from whence we have concluded others to be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57621]]></link><description><![CDATA[You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44095]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48309]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. -Thomas a Kempis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60019]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. [Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo:  Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10555</guid></item></channel></rss>