<?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[It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't want 5 a.m. wakeup calls with a front loader moving in front of someone's driveway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34543]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't want 5 a.m. wakeup calls with a front loader moving in front of someone's driveway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on prayer   We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism... To your knees, man! and to your Bible! Decide at once! Don't hedge! Time flies! Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dilution looks to be about 11 percent, which is a touch less than the benefit from the synergies, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dilution looks to be about 11 percent, which is a touch less than the benefit from the synergies,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's sometimes a difficult thing for family members to understand. The process can be vastly different, depending on the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29341]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's sometimes a difficult thing for family members to understand. The process can be vastly different, depending on the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tim's characters tend to wear darker colors and some, like the corpse bride, are no longer living, but they have a pluck and a spirit that makes you fall in love with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing right now is the weather. Every time we try to have something, there is a storm. How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing right now is the weather. Every time we try to have something, there is a storm. How can you go to Phoenix and have a storm? Usually, you have to take tents to try and keep from burning up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!--  One plunge in the mighty torrent   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stream of the living world Where dash the billows of strife!--  One plunge in the mighty torrent   Is a year of tamer life!    City of glorious days,     Of hope, and labour and mirth,      With room and to spare, on thy splendid bays       For the ships of all the earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/845]]></link><description><![CDATA[People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind)  To scorn delights, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind)  To scorn delights, and live laborious days;   But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,    And think to burst out into sudden blaze,     Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,      And slits the thin-spun life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More light! [Ger., Mehr Licht!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25053]]></link><description><![CDATA[More light! [Ger., Mehr Licht!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fisherman PipingA fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Standing on a projecting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fisherman PipingA fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore. Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord dance into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the sea, made an excellent haul of fish. When he saw them leaping about in the net upon the rock he said: O you most perverse creatures, when I piped you would not dance, but now that I have ceased you do so merrily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In economic terms at least, Wednesday's budget seems set to be a very low key affair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36604]]></link><description><![CDATA[In economic terms at least, Wednesday's budget seems set to be a very low key affair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15476]]></link><description><![CDATA[How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta  Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54088]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta  Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an attempt to smear a well-known group with allegations of involvement in espionage activity. They are preparing public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41246]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an attempt to smear a well-known group with allegations of involvement in espionage activity. They are preparing public opinion for a government move to close us down, which they can now do under the new law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21387]]></link><description><![CDATA[To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very, very impressive. In a way, he pulled a mini version of Normann last year. He got away and made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very, very impressive. In a way, he pulled a mini version of Normann last year. He got away and made it hold up with a solid run. He's the real deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46805]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life aren't things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life aren't things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is all metaphor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is all metaphor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If German citizens, for example, who are vacationing in France, get robbed there, they can -- together with German courts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35205]]></link><description><![CDATA[If German citizens, for example, who are vacationing in France, get robbed there, they can -- together with German courts -- apply for compensation from the French authorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't pray for lighter burdens, but for stronger backs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not the worst moments of our lives.Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11212]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not the worst moments of our lives.Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10714]]></link><description><![CDATA[... as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of saying we all sit together and agree to share the profit is highly problematic because different groups ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of saying we all sit together and agree to share the profit is highly problematic because different groups of people will demand a bigger slice of the pie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64479]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise man's mouth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65391]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63911</guid></item></channel></rss>