<?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[We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60615]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19844]]></link><description><![CDATA[A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common report is not always wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common report is not always wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18973</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/10784]]></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/10784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40106]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're our biggest corporate donor and so of course we look forward to that funding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22512]]></link><description><![CDATA[God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we fear crosses, the more reason we have to think that we stand in need of them: let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we fear crosses, the more reason we have to think that we stand in need of them: let us not be discouraged when the hand of God layeth heavy ones upon us. We ought to judge of the violence of our disease by the violence of the remedies which our spiritual physician prescribes for us. It is a great argument of our wretchedness and of God's mercy, that, notwithstanding the difficulty of our recovery, He vouchsafes to undertake our cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will ourself in person to this war; And, for our coffers, with too great a court  And liberal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54513]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will ourself in person to this war; And, for our coffers, with too great a court  And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light,   We are enforced to farm our royal realm,    The revenue whereof shall furnish us     For our affairs in hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the gods love jokes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the gods love jokes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields  Of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stars, Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields  Of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47801]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47801</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[Abundance, like want, ruins many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance, like want, ruins many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2637]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hole calls the thiefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hole calls the thiefe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be tough. In most of the brackets, there were 3-4 kids with 30 wins. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it was going to be tough. In most of the brackets, there were 3-4 kids with 30 wins. But overall, we weren't at our best today. Some kids just had an off day today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64469]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look back and thank God. Look forward and trust God. He closes doors no one can open and He opens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look back and thank God. Look forward and trust God. He closes doors no one can open and He opens doors no one can close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,  Shine by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53005]]></link><description><![CDATA[But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn,  Shine by the side of every path we tread   With such a lustre he that runs may read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer the words, the better the prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer the words, the better the prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39304]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It felt like people were squeezing on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two lousy choices is no better than seven lousy choices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two lousy choices is no better than seven lousy choices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46869]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them: but if it happed to light within their chawes or mouth, especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's cool is he has dreadlocks. That makes piano OK in rock, if the piano player looks cool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32557]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's cool is he has dreadlocks. That makes piano OK in rock, if the piano player looks cool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know why anybody would do this. They're nice people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know why anybody would do this. They're nice people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9957]]></link><description><![CDATA[A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20248]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Lucifer, The son of mystery;  And since God suffers him to be,   He, too, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12150]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Lucifer, The son of mystery;  And since God suffers him to be,   He, too, is God's minister,    And labors for some good     By us not understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.   Es wachst der Mensch mit seinen grossern Zwecken.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. -Dennis Fakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19689]]></link><description><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11723</guid></item></channel></rss>