<?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[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, dense intelligence. I suspect that it was Batavian (i.e. from the Netherlands-Batavia.) [Lat., O crassum ingenium. Suspicor fuisse Batavum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47253]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These violent delights have violent ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60693]]></link><description><![CDATA[These violent delights have violent ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, So error is hell, or a mischief as bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45270]]></link><description><![CDATA[As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stupidity talks, vanity acts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stupidity talks, vanity acts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I’m content with what I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I’m content with what I can do and if I’m completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It’s only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24218]]></link><description><![CDATA[A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is too small to know and nothing too big to attempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is too small to know and nothing too big to attempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From his silence a man's consent is inferred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50548]]></link><description><![CDATA[From his silence a man's consent is inferred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is the mother of all wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25198]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a big deal. We've got good players behind him and we're ready to go. That's life. It's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a big deal. We've got good players behind him and we're ready to go. That's life. It's a window of opportunity for those two kids and they need to jump on it and go get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29492]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It can be a challenge for (flight crews) who aren't medical professionals. Outwardly, a respiratory infection can look like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39584]]></link><description><![CDATA[It can be a challenge for (flight crews) who aren't medical professionals. Outwardly, a respiratory infection can look like a common cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24316]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,  Soon as the woods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,  Soon as the woods on shore dim,   We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn;    Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,     The rapids are near and the daylight's past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a great buying opportunity if the tower stocks got significantly hurt by news of a wireless merger, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a great buying opportunity if the tower stocks got significantly hurt by news of a wireless merger,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This gives us a very persistent presence in these portals and browsers, with voice-over-IP [Internet protocol], ... The ability to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42515]]></link><description><![CDATA[This gives us a very persistent presence in these portals and browsers, with voice-over-IP [Internet protocol], ... The ability to attach other services and applications to that voice service was very much a part of our strategy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1156]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle, and no staffe to spin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49054]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle, and no staffe to spin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65336]]></link><description><![CDATA[True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19950]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has humanity, forewarned,   Will turn aside and let the reptile live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger. [Fr., On ne peut repondre de son courage quand on n'a jamais ete dans le peril.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52210]]></link><description><![CDATA[...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want a vote on this tonight, Bert, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38125]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want a vote on this tonight, Bert,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the destination list of Washington, ... you'll have the MCI Center area, Georgetown and, now, boom, the South Capitol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29250]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the destination list of Washington, ... you'll have the MCI Center area, Georgetown and, now, boom, the South Capitol Street ballpark area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,  Of his unrivall'd pencil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,  Of his unrivall'd pencil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of thy presence and no land beside. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of thy presence and no land beside. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27101]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hidden resentment, that lies behind the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hidden resentment, that lies behind the divisions of the Christian Church sees clearly the advantage of a united Christian front and cannot see why the Churches cannot 'get together'. The problem is doubtless complicated, for there are many honest differences held with equal sincerity, but it is only made insoluble because the different denominations are (possibly unconsciously) imagining God to be Roman or Anglican or Baptist or Methodist or Presbyterian or what have you. If they could see beyond their little inadequate god, and glimpse the reality of God, they might even laugh a little and perhaps weep a little. The result would be a unity that actually does transcend differences, instead of ignoring them with public politeness and private contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David went down in the second set, and the trainer came out and looked at him. I told him the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30269]]></link><description><![CDATA[David went down in the second set, and the trainer came out and looked at him. I told him the match wasn't worth getting hurt over. I think it was just pure guts on his part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If students needed a left-handed desk, he or she would just move a [lefty] desk from one classroom to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30272]]></link><description><![CDATA[If students needed a left-handed desk, he or she would just move a [lefty] desk from one classroom to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cardinal rule is you stay on line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cardinal rule is you stay on line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is present by love alone. By love alone He is great and glorious. By love alone He liveth and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6788]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is present by love alone. By love alone He is great and glorious. By love alone He liveth and feeleth in other persons. By love alone He enjoyeth all the creatures, by love alone He is pleasing to Himself, by love alone He is rich and blessed. O, why dost not thou by love alone seek to achieve all these, by love alone attain another self, by love alone live in others, by love attain thy glory? The same is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love. But that which does love wisely and truly is the joy and end of all the world, the King of Heaven and the friend of God, the shining light and temple of eternity, the brother of Jesus Christ, and one spirit with the Holy Ghost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22005</guid></item></channel></rss>