<?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[Thou shalt go thou shalt return never in battle shalt thou perish. [Lat., Ibis redibis non morieris in bello.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt go thou shalt return never in battle shalt thou perish. [Lat., Ibis redibis non morieris in bello.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54010]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't long for the unripe grape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't long for the unripe grape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18204]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;  We bear the burden and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24835]]></link><description><![CDATA[With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;  We bear the burden and the heat   Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.    Not till the hours of light return     All we have built as we discern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mankind love a lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63645]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mankind love a lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel is willing to take a risk in order to make progress in the peace process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Israel is willing to take a risk in order to make progress in the peace process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll put a spoke among your wheels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll put a spoke among your wheels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter of life and death. I cannot help speaking urgently, for myself, for yourselves. "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." That is to say, it is the deliberate verdict of the Lord Jesus that it is better not to have lived than not to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43525]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43881]]></link><description><![CDATA[A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride has a greater share than goodness of heart in the remonstrances we make to those who are guilty of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride has a greater share than goodness of heart in the remonstrances we make to those who are guilty of faults; we reprove, not so much with a view to correcting them, as to persuade them that we are exempt from those faults ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20329]]></link><description><![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44752]]></link><description><![CDATA[We refused to assume - one of the central obligations of parenthood: to make ourselves the final authority on good and bad, right and wrong, and to take the consequences of what might turn out to be a lifetime battle]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is the only sport I know that when you are on offense the other team controls the ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is the only sport I know that when you are on offense the other team controls the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The rolling snow-ball.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because he hashelped abuse lab animalsin speaking normallyor ex cathedramillions of Catholicsdefine themselves asex cath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because he hashelped abuse lab animalsin speaking normallyor ex cathedramillions of Catholicsdefine themselves asex cath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down,  A Cloak and Band I then put on, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down,  A Cloak and Band I then put on,   And preached against the Crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't beat them, join them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50995]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't beat them, join them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of people's jobs and lives and economic well-being depending on moving water through the delta in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31904]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of people's jobs and lives and economic well-being depending on moving water through the delta in an ecologically sound manner. It's hard to imagine a more important issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[State level legislators can use these scientifically researched results to help make policy. It's a source of information to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39923]]></link><description><![CDATA[State level legislators can use these scientifically researched results to help make policy. It's a source of information to know what's going on in rural Iowa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For too long, the publicity of the sport has come in a two-week window (during the College World Series). And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38782]]></link><description><![CDATA[For too long, the publicity of the sport has come in a two-week window (during the College World Series). And now, we're trying to put it in the center stage year round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53096]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a real risk that this motion could succeed ... and we need to deal with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40538]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a real risk that this motion could succeed ... and we need to deal with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they were holding him and they would destroy him if I don't cooperate with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40732]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they were holding him and they would destroy him if I don't cooperate with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful when!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're now looking at going over there to begin discussions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll miss him, but it creates the opportunity for someone else to come up and take his place in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42091]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll miss him, but it creates the opportunity for someone else to come up and take his place in the side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single doctor likes a sculler plies, And all his art and all his physic tries;  But two physicians, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26680]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single doctor likes a sculler plies, And all his art and all his physic tries;  But two physicians, like a pair of oars,   Conduct you soonest to the Stygian shores.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil's most devilish when respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil's most devilish when respectable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25690</guid></item></channel></rss>