<?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[I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I teach that all are men are mad. [Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I teach that all are men are mad. [Lat., Doceo insanire omnes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not make fish one and flesh of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16066]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not make fish one and flesh of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22558]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Dr. [John A. T.] Robinson is right in saying that "God is teaching us that we must live as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6866]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Dr. [John A. T.] Robinson is right in saying that "God is teaching us that we must live as men who can get on very well without him", then the Church has no need to say anything whatever to secularized man for that is precisely what secularized man already believes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, fellow, well met, All dirty and wet:  Find out, if you can,   Who's master, who's man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, fellow, well met, All dirty and wet:  Find out, if you can,   Who's master, who's man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boys and the FrogsSome boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1556]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boys and the FrogsSome boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23017]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To leave frivolous circumstances, I pray you tell Signior Lucentio that his father is come from Pisa and is here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8723]]></link><description><![CDATA[To leave frivolous circumstances, I pray you tell Signior Lucentio that his father is come from Pisa and is here at the door to speak with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end must justify the means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end must justify the means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe the final decision was pretty clear. At a time when the state is developing community-based treatment and support ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39766]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe the final decision was pretty clear. At a time when the state is developing community-based treatment and support programs for children ... a large adolescent psychiatric hospital doesn't represent the best way to meet the individual needs of adolescents in our region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44394]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about it, Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   If all you have found [in Christianity] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   If all you have found [in Christianity] is advantage, whether it is fun or profit or security, then you haven't started following Him yet. His way is the way of the Cross. The world can be very hard on those it hates. If it is not hard on you, perhaps it sees nothing in you to hate. But then it doesn't see Jesus in you, for it hates Jesus with an undying hatred. While your way is still all fun, all easy, all jolly, it is only your way: when you turn from it to follow His way, it will cost. It may cost you everything you have. That is what it cost Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids have their school team, and then they have their summer team. They play the league games hard, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids have their school team, and then they have their summer team. They play the league games hard, but then they come together after the game is over and are friends again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, afriend, an aquaintance, or a stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, afriend, an aquaintance, or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have reached an agreement in principle for the creation of a joint company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35714]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have reached an agreement in principle for the creation of a joint company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9330]]></link><description><![CDATA[If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen! O, listen! Here come the hum the golden bees  Underneath full blossomed trees,   At once with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen! O, listen! Here come the hum the golden bees  Underneath full blossomed trees,   At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every burned book enlightens the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every burned book enlightens the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how our failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61946]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39273]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to accept our beliefs. The same thing happens when a hot coal meets another piece of coal: it either shares its fire with it or is overwhelmed by the other`s size and is extinguished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions: first, her father slain;  Next, your son gone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51272]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions: first, her father slain;  Next, your son gone, and he most violent author   Of his own just remove; the people muddied,    Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers     For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly      In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia       Divided from herself and her fair judgment,        Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;         Last, and as much containing as all these,          Her brother is in secret come from France,           Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,            And wants not buzzers to infect his ear             With pestilent speeches of his father's death,              Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,               Will nothing stick our person to arraign                In ear and ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22799]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather than go through such a pointlessly repetitive exercise, the court ruled that the chief of the Forest Service properly adopted the broad moratorium through an agency-wide rule,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63726]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44423]]></link><description><![CDATA[One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18096]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56398]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49501]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9866]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our illusions that create the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20468]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our illusions that create the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evils have their comfort, good none can support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evils have their comfort, good none can support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49230</guid></item></channel></rss>