<?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[Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say "Excuse me".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15612]]></link><description><![CDATA[A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5936]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daniel deserves all the credit. We had several scoring opportunities to break the game open. We didn't do it but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daniel deserves all the credit. We had several scoring opportunities to break the game open. We didn't do it but our pitching staff came through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53415]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. [Proverbs 11-24].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51396]]></link><description><![CDATA[What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43397]]></link><description><![CDATA[For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some "expert"... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59153]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in,  When our angels stand in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26927]]></link><description><![CDATA[When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in,  When our angels stand in a waiting hush,   Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59624]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60420]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Washington! thrice glorious name, What due rewards can man decree--  Empires are far below thy aim,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61243]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Washington! thrice glorious name, What due rewards can man decree--  Empires are far below thy aim,   And scepters have no charms for thee;    Virtue alone has your regards,     And she must be your great reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19912]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat is above all things, a dramatist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat is above all things, a dramatist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.  Rough winds do shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,   And summer's lease hath all too short a date.    Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,     And often is his gold complexion dimmed;      And every fair from fair sometime declines,       By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed:        But thy eternal summer shall not fade         Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,          Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade           When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.            So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,             So ling lives this, and this gives life to thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34976]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You look at them (Laurel Highlands) and I think this may be the furthest they've gone. I look up and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37570]]></link><description><![CDATA[You look at them (Laurel Highlands) and I think this may be the furthest they've gone. I look up and down my bench and see a lot of guys who have had gold medals around their necks. That's a big advantage in a game like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Bush's strong effort in the state] is probably not going to help him win in California, which at this point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42440]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Bush's strong effort in the state] is probably not going to help him win in California, which at this point seems extremely unlikely, ... But it may force Gore to commit some more resources here to really try to solidify his California Latino base.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63572]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. Itis for us to put ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. Itis for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,--  'Tis said thy blithesome song was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54340]]></link><description><![CDATA[On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,--  'Tis said thy blithesome song was hushed   While Christ toiled up Mount Calvary,    Bowed 'neath the sins of all mankind;     And humbled to the very dust      By the vile cross, while viler men       Mocked with a crown of thorns the Just.        Pierced by our sorrows, and weighed down         By our transgressions,--faint and weak,          Crushed by an angry Judge's frown,           And agonies no word can speak,--            'Twas then, dear bird, the legend says             That thou, from out His crown, didst tear              The thorns, to lighten the distress               And ease the pain that he must bear,                While pendant from thy tiny beak                 The gory points thy bosom pressed,                  And crimsoned with thy Saviour's blood                   The sober brownness of thy breast!                    Since which proud hour for thee and thine.                     As an especial sign of grace                      God pours like sacramental wine                       Red signs of favor o'er thy race!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind, but friendship is clairvoyant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1682]]></link><description><![CDATA[We’re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22364]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the next few days, ... I will be explaining the American position to leaders in the countries I visit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the next few days, ... I will be explaining the American position to leaders in the countries I visit while making it clear that in confronting the clear and present danger posed by Iraqi lawlessness, the diplomatic string is running out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63489]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16715]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40708]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to steamroll.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye Year By Hands unseen are showers of Vi'lets found;  The Redbreast loves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16410]]></link><description><![CDATA[There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye Year By Hands unseen are showers of Vi'lets found;  The Redbreast loves to build and warble there,   And little Footsteps lightly print the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13804]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19547]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs  To load the May-wind's restless wings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2940]]></link><description><![CDATA[What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs  To load the May-wind's restless wings,   When, from the orchard-row, he pours    Its fragrance through our open doors;     A world of blossoms for the bee,      Flowers for the sick girl's silent room,       For the glad infant sprigs of bloom,        We plant with the apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These robust, versatile machines will enable children to become more active in their own learning, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40205]]></link><description><![CDATA[These robust, versatile machines will enable children to become more active in their own learning,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house is a castle which the King cannot enter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/683]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63831]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44776</guid></item></channel></rss>