<?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[When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57253]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61788]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town;  May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,   And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.    May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,     Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,      Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.   - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live With Regis and Kelly. I have heard it was Jessica who commenced the divorce action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live With Regis and Kelly. I have heard it was Jessica who commenced the divorce action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51813]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quiet is what home would be without children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quiet is what home would be without children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26598]]></link><description><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes a great difference in our feelings towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6241]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes a great difference in our feelings towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it makes a vast difference in their feelings towards us if they know that we are in the habit of praying for them. There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never got to the bottom of streaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never got to the bottom of streaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, 'Mommy, this important news. This needs to get out. We ran it by the vice president and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, 'Mommy, this important news. This needs to get out. We ran it by the vice president and he was very mindful of his role as a guest. He said something along the lines of, 'You all do whatever you are comfortable with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4646]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. [Fr., Le premier pas, mon fils, que l'on fait dans le monde,  Est celui dont depend le reste de nos jours.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13514]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48432]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5625]]></link><description><![CDATA[In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick;  A metaphor taken--I have not the page aright--   From an ethical work by the Stagyrite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57938]]></link><description><![CDATA[They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. [Lat., Nil igitur ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. [Lat., Nil igitur fieri de nilo posse putandum es  Semine quando opus est rebus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6969]]></link><description><![CDATA[One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65141]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47983]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hundred points is huge, huge, especially for an 18-year-old in this league. That's pretty unbelievable. It's definitely something I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32047]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hundred points is huge, huge, especially for an 18-year-old in this league. That's pretty unbelievable. It's definitely something I want to help him achieve. Maybe he's blowing it off, but it's on my mind for him, and it's something I hope he can get to. But I think he's just going to play his game. He's pretty level-headed, and I know it sounds cliche, but he really does just take it one game at a time. And that's good on his part just to stay focused. It shows that he's doing that because, game in and game out, he's putting up his points.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kid is unbelievable, ... I've never seen anything like it, in the NFL, or whatever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kid is unbelievable, ... I've never seen anything like it, in the NFL, or whatever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56303]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that when we don't shoot the ball well, we stop working hard. And tonight we didn't make anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31303]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that when we don't shoot the ball well, we stop working hard. And tonight we didn't make anything and I think we get discouraged and didn't play as hard on defense. That's a heart issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played Niles defense. We pride ourselves on that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37876]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played Niles defense. We pride ourselves on that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those raremoments when we are stirred by an awareness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those raremoments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higherand greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by aforce and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confidentand free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves tobe taken over by our unquestioning self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter was dull; he was at first Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull!  Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peter was dull; he was at first Dull;--Oh, so dull--so very dull!  Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed--   Still with his dulness was he cursed--    Dull--beyond all conception--dull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre. [A feather in hand is better than a bird in the air.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4598]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children and teens are surrounded by unhealthy options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children and teens are surrounded by unhealthy options.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12557]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12557</guid></item></channel></rss>