<?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[Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60032]]></link><description><![CDATA[These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18581]]></link><description><![CDATA[An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is this midget, who is not fit to lace Beckham's boots? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is this midget, who is not fit to lace Beckham's boots?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist   Almighty God, who created humanity after your image and gave them living souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist   Almighty God, who created humanity after your image and gave them living souls that they may seek you and rule your creation, teach us so to investigate the works of your hand that we may subdue the earth to our use, and strengthen our intelligence for your service. And grant that we may so receive your Word as to believe in him whom you sent to give us the science of salvation and the forgiveness of our sins. All this we ask in the name of the same Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet,  Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet,  Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!   So, I was afraid!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15869]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure  To brood so long upon one luxury,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20615]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure  To brood so long upon one luxury,   Unless it did, though fearfully, espy    A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels really nice to be honored. But it's not really for me. It's more of an honor for our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29614]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels really nice to be honored. But it's not really for me. It's more of an honor for our entire coaching staff ---- and it shows who we are as a program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10843]]></link><description><![CDATA[In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11287]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fear it is too choleric a meat. How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fear it is too choleric a meat. How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpoise, how he bounced and tumbled? They say they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpoise, how he bounced and tumbled? They say they're half fish, half flesh. A plague on them! They ne'er come but I look to be washed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17044]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17205]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63586]]></link><description><![CDATA[All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receiveback. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21492]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receiveback.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall;  Did I not see, did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall;  Did I not see, did I not feel.   That One Great Spirit governs all.    O Heaven, permit that I may lie     Where o'er my corse green branches wave;      And those who from life's tumults fly       With kindred feelings press my grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15842]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is the opium of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is the opium of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1780]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all of my substance into that fat belly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13262]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all of my substance into that fat belly of his.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3869]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water? [Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fasse des revolutions a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water? [Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fasse des revolutions a l'eau-rose?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18799]]></link><description><![CDATA[You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we find ourselves in the middle of this building boom, it's a more acute problem than ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32162]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we find ourselves in the middle of this building boom, it's a more acute problem than ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In economic terms at least, Wednesday's budget seems set to be a very low key affair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36604]]></link><description><![CDATA[In economic terms at least, Wednesday's budget seems set to be a very low key affair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality-- That's what we call the sentiment we don't share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12152]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell  Kiss'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell  Kiss'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15405]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15405</guid></item></channel></rss>