<?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[Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/221]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron sharpen iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It conflicts directly with the mission of the church to assist people who come to us and are in need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It conflicts directly with the mission of the church to assist people who come to us and are in need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will go there with an extremely open mind. If they are really serious . . . we should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30095]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will go there with an extremely open mind. If they are really serious . . . we should be able to find an agreement without too much difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, everybody likes to see you around and get to know your new teammates. But everybody understands Manny's not on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, everybody likes to see you around and get to know your new teammates. But everybody understands Manny's not on the same page with all of us. Just like Pedro [Martinez]. Pedro was used to doing his own thing, but you win 15 to 20 games every year, you've earned the respect of your teammates, and nobody is going to [complain] about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41088]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though, by your smiling you seem to say so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12217]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is suffering from high blood pressure and he cannot walk properly. His situation is very bad. He is being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29831]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is suffering from high blood pressure and he cannot walk properly. His situation is very bad. He is being given 13 pills a day for his blood pressure, diabetes and other illnesses to prevent strokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to burn out, then to fade away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to burn out, then to fade away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps. One generation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps. One generation plants trees, and the next enjoys the shade. If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61196]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be;  His bill was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4285]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be;  His bill was so yellow, his feathers so black,   So long was his tail, and so glossy his back,    That good Mrs. B., who sat hatching her eggs,     And only just left them to stretch her poor legs,      And pick for a minute the worm she preferred,       Thought there never was seen such a beautiful bird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs;  Since life's best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs;  Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease,   And though but few can serve, yet all may please;    On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence,     A small unkindness is a great offence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter where we play. Our guys love a tough crowd. Hopefully, Lawrence will provide that. I'm sure they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39638]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter where we play. Our guys love a tough crowd. Hopefully, Lawrence will provide that. I'm sure they will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11630]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58576]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43263]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men  Upon whose age we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men  Upon whose age we void it up again   With poisonous spite and envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps  Let me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57222]]></link><description><![CDATA[And grant that when I face the grisly Thing, My song may trumptet down the gray Perhaps  Let me be as a tune-swept fiddlestring   That feels the Master Melody--and snaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was very passionate about the Children's Clinic. She served on the Special Projects Committee that helped raise funds for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37810]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was very passionate about the Children's Clinic. She served on the Special Projects Committee that helped raise funds for five years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, please save me from your followers! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47699]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, please save me from your followers!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63215]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On with the dance, let joy be unconfined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48755]]></link><description><![CDATA[On with the dance, let joy be unconfined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;  Ne'er saw I, never felt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;  Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!   The river glideth at his own sweet will.    Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;     And all that mighty heart is lying still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a great night, a great Lanthorne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49997]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a great night, a great Lanthorne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22409]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine the worst stomach pain you've ever had. I have that 24 hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine the worst stomach pain you've ever had. I have that 24 hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The lines that most pleased Anderson as composer are in the second verse:] Show the rainbow of your promise/There will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32437]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The lines that most pleased Anderson as composer are in the second verse:] Show the rainbow of your promise/There will be a brighter day. ... I wanted to write something that would convey a spirit of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It puts a price on the value of prairie dog habitat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38597]]></link><description><![CDATA[It puts a price on the value of prairie dog habitat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our faith and our friendships are not shattered by one big act, but by many small neglects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6660</guid></item></channel></rss>