<?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[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2712]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Lee is dead, that good old man,-- We ne'er shall see him more:  He used to wear an old drab coat   All buttoned down before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58135]]></link><description><![CDATA[One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor has to have inspiration for making love to a woman, a married man needs only an excuse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3648]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor has to have inspiration for making love to a woman, a married man needs only an excuse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AARP commends the Governor and the State Legislature for taking this unprecedented step in helping to ensure that New York's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40898]]></link><description><![CDATA[AARP commends the Governor and the State Legislature for taking this unprecedented step in helping to ensure that New York's most vulnerable citizens can stay warm this winter. With some people actually having to choose between filling their prescriptions and filling their oil tank, this funding couldn't have come at a better time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is all about giving people time back and improving their quality of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32064]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is all about giving people time back and improving their quality of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lou played well. He started one game last year, but this was his real varsity debut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lou played well. He started one game last year, but this was his real varsity debut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54929]]></link><description><![CDATA[In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made difference? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to bring people different workshops to educate, to give them training and skills they can use in their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38137]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to bring people different workshops to educate, to give them training and skills they can use in their businesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65746]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life's worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just remember driving past and seeing the stadium and having to get off and going through there and not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41865]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just remember driving past and seeing the stadium and having to get off and going through there and not knowing where the entrance was and getting lost and having to ask people where to go and walking through with my bag and being kind of like, 'Where do I go? Where's my locker?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to confess I am worried. We played well up to 65 minutes and then there was that extraordinary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to confess I am worried. We played well up to 65 minutes and then there was that extraordinary blow which threw us off-balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14778]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very diverse. As well as a challenge, it's also an opportunity. I believe we all benefit from each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31258]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very diverse. As well as a challenge, it's also an opportunity. I believe we all benefit from each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we are praying for. If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! Though, indeed, it is not easy to say that, with honesty. Still, it may never come at all, thank God. But if you have attained as far as Epictetus--pagan though you would call him--whose daily prayer was this: "O God, give me what Thou desirest for me, for I know that what Thou choosest for me is far better than I could choose"; if you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "the very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66498]]></link><description><![CDATA[History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66735]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It didn't take long. I saw early on that he was a guy who was going to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It didn't take long. I saw early on that he was a guy who was going to be able to play for us, with his talent and abilities, and he had worked hard to get in shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is like a skilful Geometrician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17691]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is like a skilful Geometrician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing Gold Can Stay ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing Gold Can Stay]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59581]]></link><description><![CDATA[To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October turned by maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers;  Soon these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44895]]></link><description><![CDATA[October turned by maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers;  Soon these will slip from the twig's weak hold,   Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like I have to be the main guy. I'm just filling one of the pieces to the puzzle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38374]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like I have to be the main guy. I'm just filling one of the pieces to the puzzle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever--  And it may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59393]]></link><description><![CDATA[You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever--  And it may be for a day and a night,   And it well may be forever.    But whether we meet or whether we part,     (For our ways are past our knowing)      A pledge from the heart to its fellow heart,       On the ways we all are going!        Here's luck!         For we know not where we are going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58143]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14075]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expect Hyblaen or Hymethian honey to be produced, and yet offer the Attic bee nothing but Corsican thyme?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fatigue is the best pillow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fatigue is the best pillow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15754]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47297]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of the 181 elected Texas legislators serving during the 79th Legislative Session and special called sessions in Austin, only 11 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of the 181 elected Texas legislators serving during the 79th Legislative Session and special called sessions in Austin, only 11 legislators were commended for their conservative voting record. We appreciate those legislators who made Texas families their priority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15316]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48311]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62686]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50668</guid></item></channel></rss>