<?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[O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart With pity that doth make me sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5354]]></link><description><![CDATA[O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart With pity that doth make me sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we are right, make us easy to live with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune reigns in gifts of the world. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune reigns in gifts of the world. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26537]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know Kurtis is going to generate some interest (from scouts) this year, and he needs to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know Kurtis is going to generate some interest (from scouts) this year, and he needs to be able to handle that mentally. It's a challenge, but I think he's up to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45098]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plan is to do one business every weekend in time for next spring when everything will be blooming. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plan is to do one business every weekend in time for next spring when everything will be blooming. This is going to be an ongoing project and we can watch it grow as it moves down the street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore retarded in the development of his social interest, as we find regularly among]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall; A mighty love within my breast has grown,  Unseen, unspoken, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25616]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall; A mighty love within my breast has grown,  Unseen, unspoken, and of no one known;   And of my sweet, who gave it, least of all.    [Fr., Ma vie a son secret, mon ame a son mystere:     Un amour eternel en un moment concu.      La mal est sans remede, aussi j'ai du le taire,       Et elle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19950]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has humanity, forewarned,   Will turn aside and let the reptile live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad they've been able to pull together after consolidation. It seems like they have good teachers at both middle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad they've been able to pull together after consolidation. It seems like they have good teachers at both middle schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. [Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemque jocosi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. [Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemque jocosi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are elements of a win because the rate that was going to be in effect for the Web was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28800]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are elements of a win because the rate that was going to be in effect for the Web was cut in half, and there's no longer a two-tiered structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. [Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. [Fr., Le coeur sent rarement ce que la bouche exprime.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54942]]></link><description><![CDATA[When seagulls follow a trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diligence is a great teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is a great teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12538]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  In several striking cases of conversion I have studied, those in need were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  In several striking cases of conversion I have studied, those in need were inspired and affected, not merely by the kindness of an individual... but by the love and sympathy of the Church as a whole... Examples could be multiplied. This type of service is a great witness to the reality of Christian life and faith; but it presupposes a spirit of fellowship within the Church, a spirit which is all too rare. It means that there is mutual respect and trust between the minister and the members of his Church; and a spirit of fellowship which is outward-looking and which issues in service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20759]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Handsome is that handsome does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Handsome is that handsome does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46946]]></link><description><![CDATA[A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During all the years with Pete [Sampras], everybody would talk about the finals. I think Pete and I were the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29178]]></link><description><![CDATA[During all the years with Pete [Sampras], everybody would talk about the finals. I think Pete and I were the only two guys not thinking about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get on that field, I am faster than any defensive back there. I really am _ I get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37401]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get on that field, I am faster than any defensive back there. I really am _ I get open and I get separation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat - glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These two teams match up well. I expected this type of game all the way through. We were just a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31280]]></link><description><![CDATA[These two teams match up well. I expected this type of game all the way through. We were just a couple of possessions away. We just couldn't get that one basket. They hit their free throws at the end, which did it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky,  Hear the wedding song!   For the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky,  Hear the wedding song!   For the happy groom is near,    Tall as Mars, and statelier,     Hear the wedding song!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we think, we become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59144]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we think, we become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like as a feareful partridge, that is fledd From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare,  And falls to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like as a feareful partridge, that is fledd From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare,  And falls to ground to seeke for succor theare,   Whereas the hungry spaniells she does spye,    With greedy jawes her ready for to teare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It depends on what these organizations tell us they need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29038]]></link><description><![CDATA[It depends on what these organizations tell us they need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play is the beginning of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play is the beginning of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46676</guid></item></channel></rss>