<?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[We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21305]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10599]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17688]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and water which once gushed out of thy side . . . bring down with them salvation and holiness into my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9762]]></link><description><![CDATA[A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown;  Sweet are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crown;  Sweet are the nights in careless slumber spent;   The poor estate scorns fortune's angry frown:    Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss,     Beggars enjoy, when princes oft do miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B King.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27944]]></link><description><![CDATA[When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing fundraising, providing food, housing clothing, whatever she needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing fundraising, providing food, housing clothing, whatever she needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself necessary to somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself necessary to somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30838]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a once in a lifetime thing to ride across the country, and he's doing it for a good reason -- for Habitat. We're happy for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pot boils badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pot boils badly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Senate and the country need Senators of courage who are prepared to make their mark on history by standing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Senate and the country need Senators of courage who are prepared to make their mark on history by standing with past profiles in courage, and defending not party, not partisanship, but defending principle and democracy itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All griefes with bread are lesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49102]]></link><description><![CDATA[All griefes with bread are lesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that dies pays all debts. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56090]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that dies pays all debts. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by day-light. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by day-light. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have much larger student bodies to select team members from, and some of them have as many as eight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37995]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have much larger student bodies to select team members from, and some of them have as many as eight coaches for different subjects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55639]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment, and more powerful energy than earnestness or genius or thought to break the chains of sin, to win estranged and deprived hearts to God, to repair the breaches and restore the Church to her old ways of purity and power. Nothing but the anointing of the Holy Spirit can do this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/195]]></link><description><![CDATA[All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27479]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he as a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32686]]></link><description><![CDATA[But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action.If there's no action, you haven't truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21407]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action.If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18126]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who praises everybody, praises nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48025]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who praises everybody, praises nobody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44028]]></link><description><![CDATA[They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good the have a hatch before the durre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good the have a hatch before the durre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18199]]></link><description><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   There lies a lonely grave;    But no man built that sepulcher,     And no man saw it e'er,      For the angels of God upturned the sod       And laid the dead man there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24128]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11396]]></link><description><![CDATA[To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21900]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are really very happy to have them come back year after year. The public really enjoys them. They normally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39302]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are really very happy to have them come back year after year. The public really enjoys them. They normally bring 20 to 30 paintings every year. It's become expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15161</guid></item></channel></rss>