<?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[A blockhead, bit by fleas, put out the light, And chuckling cried, "Now you can't see to bite." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16208]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blockhead, bit by fleas, put out the light, And chuckling cried, "Now you can't see to bite."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are busy looking at your next step,how can you see where you are going? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34402]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are busy looking at your next step,how can you see where you are going?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. [Lat., Nihil est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5519]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune. [Lat., Nihil est aptius delectationem lectoris quam temporum varietates fortunaeque vicissitudines.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone?  Had He life, or had He none? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone?  Had He life, or had He none?   If he had not liv'd for thee,    Thou hadst died most wretchedly     And two deaths had been thy fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16873]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked: on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light. And let us remember, for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till He begin to cure them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew as well as anybody what the endowment does for artists because I had been someone it had supported ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37185]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew as well as anybody what the endowment does for artists because I had been someone it had supported through not-for-profit theater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66607]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this time it's a personnel issue. We'll make a decision whether there will be any consequences when the report ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40119]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this time it's a personnel issue. We'll make a decision whether there will be any consequences when the report is complete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have much larger student bodies to select team members from, and some of them have as many as eight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37995]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have much larger student bodies to select team members from, and some of them have as many as eight coaches for different subjects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goesto bed at night and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21212]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goesto bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is good for the stock tomorrow morning. It might be perceived as another piece of bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is good for the stock tomorrow morning. It might be perceived as another piece of bad news. But it's not a big issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is hated by all can not expect to live long. [Fr., Qui vit hai de tous ne saurait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18846]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is hated by all can not expect to live long. [Fr., Qui vit hai de tous ne saurait longtemps vivre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter of life and death. I cannot help speaking urgently, for myself, for yourselves. "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." That is to say, it is the deliberate verdict of the Lord Jesus that it is better not to have lived than not to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14573]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/575]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, but He did finish the work which Gad gave Him to do. The only alternative to frustration is to be sure that we are doing what God wants. Nothing substitutes for knowing that this day, this hour, in this place, we are doing the will of the Father. Then and only then can we think of all the other unfinished tasks with equanimity and leave them with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18425]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of two evils I have chose the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of two evils I have chose the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is rich who owes nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18695]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is rich who owes nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get money, money still! And then let virtue follow, if she will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get money, money still! And then let virtue follow, if she will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When things are at the worst they sometimes mend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48782]]></link><description><![CDATA[When things are at the worst they sometimes mend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[at the core of what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37198]]></link><description><![CDATA[at the core of what we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3983]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that makes his bed ill, lies there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49377]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that makes his bed ill, lies there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53314]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3858]]></link><description><![CDATA[... it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happy family is but an earlier heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happy family is but an earlier heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21597</guid></item></channel></rss>