<?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[A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54718]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27145]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to try to cut back on that and let this situation die down a little bit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37616]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to try to cut back on that and let this situation die down a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57655]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8746]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546   All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546   All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask; yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll,  There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road,   An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that number one, we owe it to our taxpayers to explore what our lands are worth and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30907]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that number one, we owe it to our taxpayers to explore what our lands are worth and what we want to do. This in no way obligates us to accept offers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52835]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You put fine dishes on your table, Olus, but you always put them on covered. This is ridiculous; in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14073]]></link><description><![CDATA[You put fine dishes on your table, Olus, but you always put them on covered. This is ridiculous; in the same way I could put fine dished on my table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no way to plug the leak. The driver tried, but he got soaked in gas and had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35566]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no way to plug the leak. The driver tried, but he got soaked in gas and had to be treated in the ambulance,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43733]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great for New England golf fans that the PGA Tour has made Labor Day weekend an annual end-of-summer destination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30246]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great for New England golf fans that the PGA Tour has made Labor Day weekend an annual end-of-summer destination at the TPC,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At the Garden of Olives Monastery]  "Why are you all so quiet all the time?" I say, still whispering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7385]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At the Garden of Olives Monastery]  "Why are you all so quiet all the time?" I say, still whispering at him in this hoarse voice.  "We are teachers and workers," he says, "not talkers."  "Workers, O.K.," I say, "but how can a teacher be quiet all the time and teach anybody anything?"  "Christ was the best," he says, thinking of something. "He lived thirty-three years. Thirty years he kept quiet; three years he talked. Ten to one for keeping quiet.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God moves in a mysterious way,  His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61968]]></link><description><![CDATA[God moves in a mysterious way,  His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea,  And rides upon the storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65187]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Woman and the Wine-JarAn old woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Old Woman and the Wine-JarAn old woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents. She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing it backwards and forwards said, O most delicious! How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in the very vessel which contained it so sweet a perfume! The memory of a good deed lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare;  He fed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19858]]></link><description><![CDATA[He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere, Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare;  He fed a rout of yeoman with his cheer,   Nor was his bread and beefe kept in with care;    His wine and beere to strangers were not spare,     And yet beside to all that hunger greved,      His gates were open, and they were there relived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear;  Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear;  Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,   No winter in thy year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shouldn't punish others for your own choices ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55079]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shouldn't punish others for your own choices]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47122]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The murmur that springs From the growing of grass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The murmur that springs From the growing of grass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of honour and of worth Has no eternity on earth,--  'Tis but a name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of honour and of worth Has no eternity on earth,--  'Tis but a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a source of dismay and consternation to all of us to figure out how they were really going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a source of dismay and consternation to all of us to figure out how they were really going to determine that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22606]]></link><description><![CDATA[For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opportunity is there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opportunity is there,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fop sometimes gives important advice. [Fr., Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fop sometimes gives important advice. [Fr., Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue of a man is his sword and effective speech is stronger than all fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52852]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27209]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things -- wonder, hope, a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things -- wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete... babies are almost the only remaining link with nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with anopen one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22365</guid></item></channel></rss>