<?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[There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;  Centuries more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14347]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;  Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist--   Then he was a Man and a Positivist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66467]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41213]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Lucifer, The son of mystery;  And since God suffers him to be,   He, too, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12150]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Lucifer, The son of mystery;  And since God suffers him to be,   He, too, is God's minister,    And labors for some good     By us not understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real failure in life is the failure to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real failure in life is the failure to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622   A really patient man neither complains nor seeks to be pitied; he will speak simply and truly of his trouble, without exaggerating its weight or bemoaning himself. If others pity him, he will accept their compassion patiently, unless they pity him for some ill he is not enduring, in which case he will say so with meekness, and abide in patience and truthfulness, combating his grief and not complaining of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. So]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we play like we did today we'll do good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42307]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we play like we did today we'll do good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841   The [Roman] imperial coinage (which was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841   The [Roman] imperial coinage (which was regularly used as a propaganda medium... is full of the characteristic motifs of Advent and Epiphany, celebrating the blessings which the manifestation of each successive divine emperor was to bring to a waiting world. Among the adulatory formulas with which the emperor was acclaimed, Prof. Ethelbert Stauffer mentions, as going back to the first century, "Hail, Victory, Lord of the earth, Invincible, Power, Glory, Honour, Peace, Security, Holy, Blessed, Unequalled, Great, Thou alone worthy art, Worthy is he to inherit the Kingdom, Come, come, do not delay, Come again" (p. 155) [in Christ and the Caesars]. Indeed, one has only to read Psalm lxxii, in Latin, in the official language of the empire, to see that it is largely the same formal language which is used alike in the Forum for the advent of the emperor, and in the catacombs for the celebration of the "Epiphany of Christ" (p. 251). Who was worthy to ascend the throne of the universe and direct the course of history? Caesar, or Jesus?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When that one went out, the wheels kind of fell off. We knew what we were up against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When that one went out, the wheels kind of fell off. We knew what we were up against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23670]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose only one master - Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose only one master - Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That all the year eats neither partridge not quail, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause, That all the year eats neither partridge not quail,  But sets up his rest and makes up his feast,   With a crust of brown bread and a pot of good ale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49076]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contract With Women of the USA ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contract With Women of the USA]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38824]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make ducks and drakes with shillings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make ducks and drakes with shillings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64915]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engineers had to redesign the software, reprogram the tape recorder and had to get Galileo to do data compression, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31979]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engineers had to redesign the software, reprogram the tape recorder and had to get Galileo to do data compression,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have more than one counsel in every country claiming to represent him. This can lead to conflicting legal opinion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28223]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have more than one counsel in every country claiming to represent him. This can lead to conflicting legal opinion that may damage the interest of the client.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61164]]></link><description><![CDATA[In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57866]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me,  Guesse I may, what I must be:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10971]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me,  Guesse I may, what I must be:   First, I shall decline my head;    Secondly, I shall be dead:     Lastly, safely buryed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things happen that we don't understand, but maybe we're not supposed to understand everything. Maybe we're just supposed to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things happen that we don't understand, but maybe we're not supposed to understand everything. Maybe we're just supposed to have faith,accept it and let it happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.  Majestic silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3023]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.  Majestic silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice, practice, practice until you eventually get numb on rejections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52127]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and businesse teach eloquence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and businesse teach eloquence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about.... If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about.... If you want to get along, go along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3376]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,  When that dull distance shall no more divide us;   And I no more shall scale thy wall by night    To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapt to the eyes in his black wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sacred Dove a quill did lend From her high-soaring wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sacred Dove a quill did lend From her high-soaring wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our guys decided at halftime we weren't going to let this game get away. That's what it amounted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our guys decided at halftime we weren't going to let this game get away. That's what it amounted to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the cobbler stick to his last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the cobbler stick to his last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a decision whose time has come. Bimonthly bills have gotten high, especially in the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32817]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a decision whose time has come. Bimonthly bills have gotten high, especially in the winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44497</guid></item></channel></rss>