<?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[That which offends the ear will not easily gainadmission to the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21320]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which offends the ear will not easily gainadmission to the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62525]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53821]]></link><description><![CDATA[God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze,  It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun,   And light the wandering out of stony ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25742]]></link><description><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is plain as a pike staff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is different. Everybody deserves to be given an individual plan that's best suited for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is different. Everybody deserves to be given an individual plan that's best suited for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26999]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a God in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is tact that is golden, not silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58543]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is tact that is golden, not silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27283]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48013]]></link><description><![CDATA[A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water is the same on both sides of the boat ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water is the same on both sides of the boat]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.'  And since, methinks, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18401]]></link><description><![CDATA['Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.'  And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,   Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we'll take that shit too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men  Walk under his huge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men  Walk under his huge legs and peep about   To find ourselves dishonorable graves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should not have great account to render ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55211]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should not have great account to render at my death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Too late came I to love thee, O thou Beauty so ancient and so fresh, yea too late came I to love thee. And behold, thou wert within me, and I out of myself, where I made search for thee: I ugly rushed headlong upon those beautiful things thou hast made. Thou indeed wert with me; but I was not with thee: these beauties kept me far enough from thee: even those, which unless they were in thee, should not be at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a long lesson in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a long lesson in humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then the nun-like twilight came, violent vestured and still, And the night's first star outshone afar on the eve of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then the nun-like twilight came, violent vestured and still, And the night's first star outshone afar on the eve of Bunker Hill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19170]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11485]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've raced on all seven continents at least twice. I've probably run thousands of races. But the single race that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66514]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've raced on all seven continents at least twice. I've probably run thousands of races. But the single race that I'm most proud is a 10K. Yes, a 10K. I ran it with my daughter on her 10th birthday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is listening until you make a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28030]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is listening until you make a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene.  Stilled is the hum that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene.  Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke   When round the ruins of their ancient oak    The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play,     And games and carols closed the busy day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimum would be to have him (Hasek) in net but he's injured and we're happy the way Ray has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimum would be to have him (Hasek) in net but he's injured and we're happy the way Ray has been playing. He's going to be the guy for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48437]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss not the discourse of the elders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss not the discourse of the elders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already,  To spot with sunshine the early green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The daffodil is our doorside queen; She pushes upward the sword already,  To spot with sunshine the early green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll potch at him some way; Or wrath or craft may get him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll potch at him some way; Or wrath or craft may get him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,  Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,   Of deaths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14172]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,  Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,   Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,    And, in this upshot, purposes mistook     Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the fatt's in the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16015]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the fatt's in the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beautiful thing is never perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46102]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beautiful thing is never perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56279]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of men executed and buried in mass graves, hundreds of men buried alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of men executed and buried in mass graves, hundreds of men buried alive, men and women mutilated and slaughtered, children killed before their mothers' eyes, a grandfather forced to eat the liver of his own grandson. These are truly scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57802</guid></item></channel></rss>