<?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[An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45210]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49879]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3757]]></link><description><![CDATA[You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th' invited neighbors to the husking come;  A frolic scene, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th' invited neighbors to the husking come;  A frolic scene, where work and mirth and play   Unite their charms to cheer the hours away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand the community isn't satisfied at all that it's here. There were a lot of strong words at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand the community isn't satisfied at all that it's here. There were a lot of strong words at the town meeting. But I don't feel like that. I feel really bad for the victims and their families.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. [The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. [The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an incredible serve, ... It's not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issue. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an incredible serve, ... It's not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issue. You're lunging, but then it's up. You're sort of diving, but then you can't reach it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24706]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10022]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone selected for a regular room then gets an endowed room, someone may be pulled up from the wait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone selected for a regular room then gets an endowed room, someone may be pulled up from the wait list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the worst feeling in the world to lose at home. We set high goals, and we're no longer in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37398]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the worst feeling in the world to lose at home. We set high goals, and we're no longer in the driver's seat anymore. But we can go out there and perform our best next weekend. It feels terrible, and I hope we don't feel like this again for the rest of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33686]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is the reward of virtue. [Lat., Honor est premium virtutis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far this year, 15 have already resigned, and it's only March. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38595]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far this year, 15 have already resigned, and it's only March.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your heart is free, have the courage to follow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15418]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6565]]></link><description><![CDATA[When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder I work, the luckier I get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder I work, the luckier I get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door;  The chest contriv'd a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door;  The chest contriv'd a double debt to pay,   A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44652]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be illegal to apply this proposed definition to any federal contract. The minority small business community is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be illegal to apply this proposed definition to any federal contract. The minority small business community is not well served by a resolution that flies in the face of existing laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's that nautical and pretty theme that you can see throughout the spring line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34627]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's that nautical and pretty theme that you can see throughout the spring line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim for the stars and you'll make it to the moon. Aim for the moon and you'll never make it through the atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die: I think there be six Richmonds in the field. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from gay cities, and the ways of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sendeth cold after clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51918]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sendeth cold after clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth. Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten. Birds call to one another. Bees are already at work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1156]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1156</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[Do or do not... there is no try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do or do not... there is no try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50061]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  Who is it that has helped you most? Has it not been those who believed in you? Perhaps there may be few such left. The light of expectation may have died out of the most friendly and hopeful eyes; and you yourself may have lost heart. Ah! but there is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ!... It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashioned; and I can make you all He meant that you should be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43944]]></link><description><![CDATA[raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aster greets us as we pass With her faint smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/349]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/349</guid></item></channel></rss>