<?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[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bellowing cow soon forgets her calf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50954]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bellowing cow soon forgets her calf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to learn a lot from this. It's going to give us a real definitive understanding of what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32449]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to learn a lot from this. It's going to give us a real definitive understanding of what we have up there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without adventure civilization is in full decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings. Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events. They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ago, people used to host Sunday afternoon dances with desserts and tea. We figured with the growing popularity of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ago, people used to host Sunday afternoon dances with desserts and tea. We figured with the growing popularity of the tango, we might be able to bring back two lost traditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26397]]></link><description><![CDATA[A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fogg was great, and Zach backed it up with a stellar performance himself. It was nice to have those two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fogg was great, and Zach backed it up with a stellar performance himself. It was nice to have those two guys come out and do what they did for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1166]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy  To inlay heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy  To inlay heaven with stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52334]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms:  Where light-heel'd ghosts and visionary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms:  Where light-heel'd ghosts and visionary shades,   Beneath the wan, cold Moon (as Fame reports)    Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds     No other merriment, dull tree! is thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63861]]></link><description><![CDATA[What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know how on St. Patrick's Day everybody is Irish. In Quincy this weekend, everybody's German, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42016]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know how on St. Patrick's Day everybody is Irish. In Quincy this weekend, everybody's German,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are millions of people all over the world, right now, who are looking to the United Nations for protection ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41098]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are millions of people all over the world, right now, who are looking to the United Nations for protection and redress against the violation of their rights and deprivation of their freedoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are vehemently opposed to these types of crimes; unfortunately, when these things happen, it gives fuel to people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are vehemently opposed to these types of crimes; unfortunately, when these things happen, it gives fuel to people who are already against the release of this information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And out hearts, though stout and brave,  Still, like muffled drums, are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And out hearts, though stout and brave,  Still, like muffled drums, are beating   Funeral marches to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61313]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13429]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's scary, but we're holding our own right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's scary, but we're holding our own right now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50808]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian clearly understands that Jesus does not reveal all that is signified by the word "God", but only as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian clearly understands that Jesus does not reveal all that is signified by the word "God", but only as much as could be revealed through a perfect human personality living in absolute obedience to God's will. The knowledge of God that men have by virtue of Jesus' revelation is quite enough for men to live by in this life, and to live gloriously and thankfully by, Christians maintain -- the knowledge that God the Creator, the Almighty and Eternal, the Lord of history, is man's Heavenly Father, and that love might well be, and indeed is, the ultimate meaning of human existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22175]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is a failure who is enjoying life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58770]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of our ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2478]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of our ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42963]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,  They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking,   But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking    How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho!     How pleasant it is to have money!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health without money is halfe an ague. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health without money is halfe an ague.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don\'t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66768]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don\'t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23574]]></link><description><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21726]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in theintroduction of a new order of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family comes first. Maybe that\'s what makes me different from other guys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66852]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family comes first. Maybe that\'s what makes me different from other guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55789]]></link><description><![CDATA[That no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those three kids have swung consistent bats all spring and they came through with those doubles all in a row. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those three kids have swung consistent bats all spring and they came through with those doubles all in a row. That was some great hitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the timid soul, nothing is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20658]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the timid soul, nothing is possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20658</guid></item></channel></rss>