<?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[When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31491]]></link><description><![CDATA[When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17652]]></link><description><![CDATA[God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46445]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9251]]></link><description><![CDATA[A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's too early to determine if alcohol or drugs were a contributing factor, or if the driver of the van ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's too early to determine if alcohol or drugs were a contributing factor, or if the driver of the van may have fallen asleep,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the outreach of self toward completion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the outreach of self toward completion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/354]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To every journey in life, how you begin matters much but who and what the journey makes you become in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62932]]></link><description><![CDATA[To every journey in life, how you begin matters much but who and what the journey makes you become in the end matters much more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone is just trying to ball up on the bottom, that's when you know you have to throw something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33875]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone is just trying to ball up on the bottom, that's when you know you have to throw something big. I just felt I had to go upper-body and throw him ... This is awesome to win three [WPIAL team titles]. It's just like winning the other two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51984]]></link><description><![CDATA[A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19849]]></link><description><![CDATA[His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud chest swells with hard muscles. [Lat., Ardua cervix,  Argumtumque caput, brevis alvos, obessaque terga,   Luxuriatque toris animosum pectus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did actually think about that quite long and hard, I must admit, when you've been No.1 for 10 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35428]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did actually think about that quite long and hard, I must admit, when you've been No.1 for 10 years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels good to know you've got this time to know you're going to be in the top 20. We're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35235]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels good to know you've got this time to know you're going to be in the top 20. We're going to have to work hard in (winter) mat drills, things like that, to hopefully keep it there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm conscious that our resources didn't always get on time, I assume the errors and I apologize to those people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39086]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm conscious that our resources didn't always get on time, I assume the errors and I apologize to those people that were missing these resources which we simply didn't have at that moment,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O doul on the day that gae me an old man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48699]]></link><description><![CDATA[O doul on the day that gae me an old man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people would find it bizarre to speak of tolerating blonds. For whatever reason, hair color has not been a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people would find it bizarre to speak of tolerating blonds. For whatever reason, hair color has not been a basis of tribal identity or group politics in our culture; the concept of tolerance is never invoked in this context because there is too obviously nothing to tolerate. In a rational culture, the same would be true of race, ethnicity, and the like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains. [Lat., Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55303]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains. [Lat., Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18890]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20701]]></link><description><![CDATA[A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the roots are not removed during weeding, the weeds will grow again when the winds of Spring blows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62813]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the roots are not removed during weeding, the weeds will grow again when the winds of Spring blows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss not the discourse of the elders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss not the discourse of the elders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60313]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One doctor, singly like the sculler plies, The patient struggles, and by inches dies;  But two physicians, like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26692]]></link><description><![CDATA[One doctor, singly like the sculler plies, The patient struggles, and by inches dies;  But two physicians, like a pair of oars,   Waft him right swiftly to the Stygian shores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28043]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[why wait for the weekend to have fun? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61503]]></link><description><![CDATA[why wait for the weekend to have fun?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which costs little is less valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21281]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which costs little is less valued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that's bright must fade,-- The brightest still the fleetest;  All that's sweet was made   But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50689]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that's bright must fade,-- The brightest still the fleetest;  All that's sweet was made   But to be lost when sweetest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not mend your neighbor's fence before seeing to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that you can't be too greedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that you can't be too greedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11985]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,  The wrecks of matter, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57266]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,  The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In durance vile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48262]]></link><description><![CDATA[In durance vile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48262</guid></item></channel></rss>