<?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[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring out ye crystal spheres! Once bless our human ears,  If ye have power to touch our senses so; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring out ye crystal spheres! Once bless our human ears,  If ye have power to touch our senses so;   And let your silver chime    Move in melodious time,     And let the bass of Heaven's deep organ blow;      And with your ninefold harmony       Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man has a lesbian daughter, yet he wants to make gays and lesbians second-class citizens in the U.S. Constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man has a lesbian daughter, yet he wants to make gays and lesbians second-class citizens in the U.S. Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13621]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50794]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then you yell, 'Fire! Fire! Fire in the hole!' and you're gonna hustle on out of there. In fact you've got very, very little time to get out. Most coal miners, they just take and fall down on their face right there ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â because they're gonna end up that way anyhow, and then you're gonna have to go find your hat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A page has been opened on the path to modernization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A page has been opened on the path to modernization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great acts are made up of small deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great acts are made up of small deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155   Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155   Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace, it is glory in its infancy. I now see godliness is more than the outside and this world's passments and their buskings [i.e., ornaments and fine dress]. Who knoweth the truth of grace without a trial? O how little getteth Christ of us, but that which he winneth (to speak so) with much toil and pains! And how soon would faith freeze without a cross?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's vows are women's traitors! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's vows are women's traitors!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have money saved up for the trip, so the cost of gasoline is less important than its availability. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have money saved up for the trip, so the cost of gasoline is less important than its availability. Our biggest concern is needing to refuel along the way in North Carolina, South Carolina or Georgia, without being able to find any gasoline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2119]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to understand. The biker world is a very, very big organization, and they're all over the U.S. and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40966]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to understand. The biker world is a very, very big organization, and they're all over the U.S. and the world. When they know you're right ... you're not going to find us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23209]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would take to fill up Soldier Field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would the gods had made thee poetical. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would the gods had made thee poetical. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33795]]></link><description><![CDATA[When any volume of this blend comes in contact with one-half of 1 percent (of its own volume) of water, a condition called 'phase separation' occurs. For 10,000 gallons (of blend), that's 50 gallons of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7927]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man safely goeth abroad who loveth not to rest at home. No man safely talketh but he who loveth to hold his peace. No man safely ruleth but he who loveth to be subject. No man safely commandeth but he who loveth to obey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician,  Cur'd yesterday of my disease,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26711]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician,  Cur'd yesterday of my disease,   I died last night of my physician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23213]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will continue martyrdom operations throughout Palestine until the occupation leaves. The barriers of shame and disgrace set up by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28621]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will continue martyrdom operations throughout Palestine until the occupation leaves. The barriers of shame and disgrace set up by the Zionists shall face more blows,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64234]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have gone from a minivan to a full-size cargo van to a FedEx delivery truck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have gone from a minivan to a full-size cargo van to a FedEx delivery truck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time not spent on love is wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time not spent on love is wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63121</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[We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old ‘philosophies’, and that from them arise most of the old ‘philosophical’ fights and arguments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The berries of the brier rose Have lost their rounded pride:  The bitter-sweet chrysanthemums   Are drooping heavy-eyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16259]]></link><description><![CDATA[The berries of the brier rose Have lost their rounded pride:  The bitter-sweet chrysanthemums   Are drooping heavy-eyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3769]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American Baseball Coaches Association started All-American honors in that year. That was also the first year of the College ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American Baseball Coaches Association started All-American honors in that year. That was also the first year of the College World Series.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59346]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love opposition that has convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love opposition that has convictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45146</guid></item></channel></rss>