<?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[A thousand year a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise:  But while one little nap he snatched, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand year a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise:  But while one little nap he snatched,   It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout Europe: the devil's hoof, the devil's horn mark. It reaches back to early Christianity and the middle ages. Where a child was born out of wedlock, the church cooked up the impression that you'd done something sinful, and something dreadful would result. You will still find, particularly in Greece, people doing a little sign when they see a very badly disabled child ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it needs warding off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ooh, that was just a little phase (smashing plates to relieve pain). I don't do that any more but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ooh, that was just a little phase (smashing plates to relieve pain). I don't do that any more but it was good fun, a release. I recommend it to everybody. That's as long as you're not hurting anybody. And find a place where you're not going to be in the way of anything. Oh and don't destroy anything valuable that you'll regret later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do it because we love it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40580]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do it because we love it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  Why all this strife and zeal about opinions? Death and life go on their own way, carry on their own work, and stay for no opinions... What a delusion it is therefore to grow gray-headed in balancing ancient and modern opinions; to waste the precious uncertain fire of life in critical zeal and verbal animosities; when nothing but the kindling of our working will into a faith that overcometh the world, into a steadfast hope, and ever-burning love and desire of the divine life, can hinder us from falling into eternal death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51165]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20324]]></link><description><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only play two games a week, so if we have to add a third game it isn't too bad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only play two games a week, so if we have to add a third game it isn't too bad. We just haven't been getting the practice time, but the guys are trying to stay sharp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look through hundreds of online (applications) each year, summer camp counselors are almost always a hit because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look through hundreds of online (applications) each year, summer camp counselors are almost always a hit because they know what they're getting into. They choose to work with kids again, so they generally like it and relate well with them and the kids really pick up on that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50921]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when to mischief mortals bend their will, How soon they find fit instruments of ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we are all men In our own natures frail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51365]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we are all men In our own natures frail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass (in Congress), thousands of lives will be saved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lisa took the game on her back in the second half for us. She stepped up her game and said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lisa took the game on her back in the second half for us. She stepped up her game and said we weren't going to lose. On any given night any one of our players can step up. She played great defensively and knocked down a couple of shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14134]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if thou e'er wert angry But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred  Can bring more to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if thou e'er wert angry But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred  Can bring more to the making up of a man,   Than can be hoped from thee; thou art his creature;    And did he not, each morning, new create thee,     Thou'dst stink and be forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er, To try one desp'rate med'cine more;  For where your case can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26682]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er, To try one desp'rate med'cine more;  For where your case can be no worse,   The desp'rat'st is the wisest course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11109]]></link><description><![CDATA[A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went from a barber to cattleman, out of cattle into horses. The rest is history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40664]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went from a barber to cattleman, out of cattle into horses. The rest is history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to be able to provide Boiling Springs Savings Bank with a first-class Identity and Trust Assurance solution ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to be able to provide Boiling Springs Savings Bank with a first-class Identity and Trust Assurance solution for its online customer base. Our Content Verification Certificate solution will allow Boiling Springs to maintain confidence and trust among its consumers thus increasing online transactional volume as well as build awareness that it is truly a leader in customer-care and security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55334]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17057]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire is the most tolerable third party ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire is the most tolerable third party]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19042]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of me, I cannot tell you how dreadfully and how long... This, I find has more hindered my progress in love and gentleness than all things else. I never knew what the words, "Judge not that ye be not judged," meant before; now they seem to me some of the most awful, necessary, and beautiful in the whole Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18126]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55845]]></link><description><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen is the tongue of the mind. [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen is the tongue of the mind. [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is pleasure after pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is pleasure after pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1878]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with-for you are a caretaker for those moments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45513]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with-for you are a caretaker for those moments in time. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That woman is a blessing from God. She was always looking toward the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41978]]></link><description><![CDATA[That woman is a blessing from God. She was always looking toward the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Along the varying road of life, In calm content, in toil or strife,  At morn or noon, by night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Along the varying road of life, In calm content, in toil or strife,  At morn or noon, by night or day,   As time conducts him on his way,    How oft doth man, by care oppressed,     Find in an Inn a place of rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51446]]></link><description><![CDATA[When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/344]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46075]]></link><description><![CDATA[... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Pearl S. Buck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1391]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him. [Ecclesiasticus 13:1].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -King John. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20190</guid></item></channel></rss>