<?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[If you can laugh together, you can work together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can laugh together, you can work together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For discords make the sweetest airs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43441]]></link><description><![CDATA[For discords make the sweetest airs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46463]]></link><description><![CDATA[By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  Never do anything through strife, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  Never do anything through strife, or emulation, or vainglory. Never do anything in order to excel other people, but in order to please God, and because it is His will that you should do everything in the best manner that you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my friend, I find a second self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16995]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my friend, I find a second self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours  Were nice and lucky, men did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours  Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives   Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth    And send to darkness all that stop me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45601]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27941]]></link><description><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine June 15, 1996 Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on;  The mountain summit sparkles   In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on;  The mountain summit sparkles   In the light of the setting sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2699]]></link><description><![CDATA[If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Too many Christians still live with crossed fingers, sweating out their good luck as a portent of calamity. To see them, you would never guess that God's good pleasure, and not the goddess of fate, rules human destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58741]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51069]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they've been hurt before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They kept telling me, 'You are a liar,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41273]]></link><description><![CDATA[They kept telling me, 'You are a liar,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13453]]></link><description><![CDATA[People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People constantly speak of "the government" doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47512]]></link><description><![CDATA[People constantly speak of "the government" doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The army needs to be neutralized, and the best way for doing this is to make sure that certain top ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29106]]></link><description><![CDATA[The army needs to be neutralized, and the best way for doing this is to make sure that certain top figures and second-tier commanders are unwilling to cooperate with the regime should it opt to crackdown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been hard to fit Scott in, but we are aware of his record and I'm sure he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41904]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been hard to fit Scott in, but we are aware of his record and I'm sure he will do very well for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64724]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953   In this state of things I saw no remedy but faith and patience. The passage of Scripture which subdued and controlled my mind was this, "The servant of the Lord must not strive." It was painful indeed to see the church, with the exception of the aisles, almost forsaken; but I thought that if God would only give a double blessing to the congregation that did attend, there would on the whole be as much good done as if the congregation were doubled and the blessing limited to only half the amount. This comforted me many, many times, when, without such a reflection, I should have sunk under my burden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either he is naive, or he thinks people are stupid! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either he is naive, or he thinks people are stupid!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30132]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to be, and everything is terribly important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20034]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum,  And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,   While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free,  And lets us go our unobtrusive way,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free,  And lets us go our unobtrusive way,   Glad of the sun and rain,    Upright, serene, humane,     Contented with the fortune of a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why it's nerve-wracking; you've just got to sit there. As a coach, you're helpless. There's nothing you can do, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29652]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why it's nerve-wracking; you've just got to sit there. As a coach, you're helpless. There's nothing you can do, but it's fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26501]]></link><description><![CDATA[As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more merit, the less affection ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more merit, the less affection]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I can bring a positive image back to the commission. I think there's some division, and I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I can bring a positive image back to the commission. I think there's some division, and I want to try to bring them all together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once again the stock market will be the loser, especially as it already had tax disincentives compared to other countries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once again the stock market will be the loser, especially as it already had tax disincentives compared to other countries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61862]]></link><description><![CDATA[And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find  A wife I need not blush to show   I've little further now to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say to pleasure, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to talk about civil rights for all people and how you really have to stand up for your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35433]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to talk about civil rights for all people and how you really have to stand up for your rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35433</guid></item></channel></rss>