<?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[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sidney Crosby is going to play where Sidney Crosby and his agent decide he's going to play. Any player who has reached the age of 18 by Sept. 15 is eligible to play in our league if he is appropriately under contract.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The look of the movie has a kind a muted tone to it at first, and then we introduce color ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The look of the movie has a kind a muted tone to it at first, and then we introduce color to it as we go along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart is ever at your service, my lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55225]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart is ever at your service, my lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when we love we are stuck loving someone who has no desire to change, or no desire to work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when we love we are stuck loving someone who has no desire to change, or no desire to work things out with us in an effort to make things better, or to keep the relationship on a track of growth and fulfillment. There comes a point in time in some relationships that we must realize the only option that we have to live a good life is to let what is weighing us down in life go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58582]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of the release on gasoline prices is limited. Refineries are producing at full capacity and more crude will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of the release on gasoline prices is limited. Refineries are producing at full capacity and more crude will not lead to more gasoline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick-back on the old,  Much farther off, much further he,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick-back on the old,  Much farther off, much further he,   Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust,  Trod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust,  Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,   Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind,    There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,     And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were focusing on college students' attitudes toward foreign policy and for religion and morality. As part of any survey, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40252]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were focusing on college students' attitudes toward foreign policy and for religion and morality. As part of any survey, in today's youth and college students in particular, we had to focus on the Iraq war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42817]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives! [Lat., Nil est nec miserius nec stultius quam praetimere. Quae ista dementia est, malum suum antecedere!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is the science which considers truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is the science which considers truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45047]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tease her all the time because she'll need to take an afternoon off here and there to sing at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tease her all the time because she'll need to take an afternoon off here and there to sing at someone's funeral. I told her when I die, she better sing at mine. She's really good - she'll move you to tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray;  Rosy and round as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9933]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray;  Rosy and round as an apple is he,   Content with the present whate'er it may be,    While from care and from cash he is equally free,     And merry both night and day!      "Ma foi! I laugh at the world," says he,       "I laugh at the world, and the world laughs at me!"        What a gay little man in gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water trotted is as good as oates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water trotted is as good as oates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One fourth of the money stays here in Zanesville, going to Christ Table and the Salvation Army. The other three-fourth's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30142]]></link><description><![CDATA[One fourth of the money stays here in Zanesville, going to Christ Table and the Salvation Army. The other three-fourth's goes wherever it is needed in this country and in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight,  And, strong in Him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57951]]></link><description><![CDATA[So let it be in God's own might We gird us for the coming fight,  And, strong in Him whose cause is ours   In conflict with unholy powers,    We grasp the weapons he has given,--     The Light, and Truth, and Love of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of these companies are privately owned, and they now reach a point in their evolution where they grow to the point where they may lose family control of the business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55523]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the fan support that we have in this stadium, in this city and in this state, we are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30757]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the fan support that we have in this stadium, in this city and in this state, we are going to be the most attractive team for free agency whether we have a salary cap or no salary cap. We have the resources to compete either way. Just tell us what the rules are and we'll play by them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hercules and the WagonerA CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hercules and the WagonerA CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into a rut. The rustic driver, stupefied and aghast, stood looking at the wagon, and did nothing but utter loud cries to Hercules to come and help him. Hercules, it is said, appeared and thus addressed him: Put your shoulders to the wheels, my man. Goad on your bullocks, and never more pray to me for help, until you have done your best to help yourself, or depend upon it you will henceforth pray in vain. Self-help is the best help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just saying it will be one of the tallest buildings in Orlando. We're not looking to get into a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30956]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just saying it will be one of the tallest buildings in Orlando. We're not looking to get into a competition over who can build the biggest yacht, so to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885   In our Ashrams of East ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885   In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open Heart", in which we tell our needs... We give four or five hours to this catharsis. The reaction of one member, who listened to it for the first time, was: "Good gracious, have we all the disrupted people in the country here?" My reply was: "No, you have a cross section of the church life honestly revealed." In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64803]]></link><description><![CDATA[A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47396]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21079]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21079</guid></item></channel></rss>