<?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[Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, And leaves, for fortune's ice, vertue's firme land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you wantthe other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21689]]></link><description><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you wantthe other person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked-up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â there was a stream of blood going down the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36946]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most brutal thing I have ever seen ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â there was a stream of blood going down the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices could remain at or above $38 for the next one to two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices could remain at or above $38 for the next one to two years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  You and I drift on through the years dully enough, because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877  You and I drift on through the years dully enough, because we do not believe in God, not really, and so we have no expectation. But Jesus did believe in Him, was sure He is alive and abroad in the world; that, therefore, anything may happen any hour. And thus to Him any smallest incident was a magic casement opening upon who could tell what possibilities. A fisherman offers Him a crude, inchoate half-faith, and with that He is sure that He can found a world-wide Church that will defy the powers of evil, aye, and grind them into nothingness at last: a dying brigand, paying the just penalties of his crimes, gropes towards Him in the darkness with the vague hands of a blind man, and, founding upon that, Christ dies, quite sure that He has won: two or three Gentiles seek an interview with Him, and He sees a whole teeming world of men and women being saved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60080]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives me small gifts would have me live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49341]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives me small gifts would have me live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One joy shatters a hundred griefs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18319]]></link><description><![CDATA[One joy shatters a hundred griefs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is meat and drink to me. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is meat and drink to me. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dutch are a great team, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dutch are a great team,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, we have injected UF6 gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines, but it is even less than what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, we have injected UF6 gas into a limited number of centrifuge machines, but it is even less than what is needed for a pilot project.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suspect that hunger was my mother. [Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20157]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suspect that hunger was my mother. [Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless ourwalking is our preaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless ourwalking is our preaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221  Verily, if thou desirest to have the Creator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221  Verily, if thou desirest to have the Creator of all creatures, thou must renounce all creatures; for it cannot be otherwise, but only insomuch as thy soul is emptied and bared; the less of the creature, the more of God: this is but a fair bargain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23357]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is the possibility of losing your hearing. That's when it gets to a very serious level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42359]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the possibility of losing your hearing. That's when it gets to a very serious level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, we can't control that, just as we can't control outsiders gambling on our games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, we can't control that, just as we can't control outsiders gambling on our games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18732]]></link><description><![CDATA[If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . -Hubert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. . -Hubert Humphrey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night,  They have driven sleep from mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2781]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night,  They have driven sleep from mine eyes away;   I will go down to the chapel and pray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51054]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897 To live of love, it is to know no fear;  No memory of past faults can I recall; No imprint of my sins remaineth here;  The fire of Love divine effaces all. O sacred flames! O furnace of delight!  I sing my safe sweet happiness to prove. In these mild fires I dwell by day, by night.  I live of love!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21172]]></link><description><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16396]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you read the constitution, it does not say 'after obtaining the approval' of the parliament but 'after listening to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36233]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you read the constitution, it does not say 'after obtaining the approval' of the parliament but 'after listening to the considerations',]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36233</guid></item></channel></rss>