<?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[The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumb-bells? To dig a vineyard is a worthier exercise for men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25117]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else  But what your jealousies awake, I tell you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23171]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else  But what your jealousies awake, I tell you   'Tis rigor and not law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognize the duty of governments to combat crime, but this is a knee-jerk response -- it shows that China's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognize the duty of governments to combat crime, but this is a knee-jerk response -- it shows that China's 'Strike Hard' crime campaign mentality is still prevalent, at least in some parts of the country. There is no evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than other punishments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear;  Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear;  Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2544]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13351]]></link><description><![CDATA[For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York;  And all the clouds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York;  And all the clouds that lowered upon our house   In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12524]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. [Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire vult.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Pat (Connolly) threw well for us, but you can't win games fielding the way we did. This one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Pat (Connolly) threw well for us, but you can't win games fielding the way we did. This one is tough to accept. But the kids never quit. The kids hung in there and we battled back-and-forth, back-and-forth. It was a wild high school baseball game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would die for my country . . . but I would not let my country die for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45834]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would die for my country . . . but I would not let my country die for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have 4,000 homes with a 10-year build-out coming into the county. We've been able to use the county planner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31269]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have 4,000 homes with a 10-year build-out coming into the county. We've been able to use the county planner to help us plan for quality development.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43229]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail;  We'll pull his plumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail;  We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,   If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,  Now in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,  Now in a lily cup, and now   Setting a jacinth bell a-swing,    In his wandering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14635]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think if I was in the position of the Czech coach, I would do the same, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33643]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think if I was in the position of the Czech coach, I would do the same,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's kind of a mess, and they wanted some fix. This would be a good fix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's kind of a mess, and they wanted some fix. This would be a good fix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sumer is y cumen in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sumer is y cumen in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55509]]></link><description><![CDATA[For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10436]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy often inflicts death. [Lat., Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy often inflicts death. [Lat., Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62657]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow,  And humbler growths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow,  And humbler growths as moved with one desire   Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire,    Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay     With his red stalks upon this sunny day!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to cut that last cable. That's when the rover is really born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41703]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to cut that last cable. That's when the rover is really born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37187]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame is for God and small children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame is for God and small children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8102]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. His prayer in Gethsemane, his sweat of blood, show that the preceding anxiety is a part of human affliction, which we must try to accept with some sort of submission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou believest that Christ was crucified for the sins of the world, thou must with Him be crucified... If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6462]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou believest that Christ was crucified for the sins of the world, thou must with Him be crucified... If thou refusest to comply with this order, thou canst not be a living member of Christ, nor be united with Him by faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57384</guid></item></channel></rss>