<?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[Who teacheth often learns himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who teacheth often learns himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's kind of a mess, and they wanted some fix. This would be a good fix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's kind of a mess, and they wanted some fix. This would be a good fix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20894]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10323]]></link><description><![CDATA[True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Monday), we watched films of a recent Greenwood game, and they really struggled from three-point range. They only made 30 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39213]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Monday), we watched films of a recent Greenwood game, and they really struggled from three-point range. They only made 30 percent of their shots, and they had trouble handling the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption is a malady not only effecting developing countries, but also the developed world, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption is a malady not only effecting developing countries, but also the developed world,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we are praying for. If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! Though, indeed, it is not easy to say that, with honesty. Still, it may never come at all, thank God. But if you have attained as far as Epictetus--pagan though you would call him--whose daily prayer was this: "O God, give me what Thou desirest for me, for I know that what Thou choosest for me is far better than I could choose"; if you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "the very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best.But, since there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22358]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best.But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back onmy bass playing abilities.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a game that two can play and both win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a game that two can play and both win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they should leave the schools in the community. They can really bond with teachers and each other here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33356]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they should leave the schools in the community. They can really bond with teachers and each other here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20700]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon our society than the others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52500]]></link><description><![CDATA[All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50276]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50065]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his houl is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7460]]></link><description><![CDATA[By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his houl is laid bare. If he regards Christ with love, even with wistful yearning, for him there is hope; but if in Christ he sees nothing lovely he has condemned himself. He who was sent in love has become to the man, judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60836]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolved, That the compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell; involving both parties in atrocious criminality, and should be immediately annulled.   - William Lloyd Garrison,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I won't be offended if someone chooses to violate it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36730]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I won't be offended if someone chooses to violate it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is only going to continue. The FCC says there are 530 national satellite-deliverable cable networks. A year ago there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30412]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is only going to continue. The FCC says there are 530 national satellite-deliverable cable networks. A year ago there were 188.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are the best of the best ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â good temperament, good medical background, good size. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36423]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are the best of the best ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â good temperament, good medical background, good size.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65941]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came out aggressive right from the start and were really clicking. The team really shared the ball well and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31950]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came out aggressive right from the start and were really clicking. The team really shared the ball well and looked for each other on the fast break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been just enough activity on the big, new shiny aircraft front ... to keep both manufacturers feeling and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31733]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been just enough activity on the big, new shiny aircraft front ... to keep both manufacturers feeling and talking very buoyantly about the future,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are made to be loved, not understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are made to be loved, not understood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise  To ease my breast of melodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dry your eyes--O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise  To ease my breast of melodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58388]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46576]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he   Has had, till lately, of Phrenology--    A science that by simple dint of     Head-combing he should find a hint of,      When scratching o'er those little pole-hills       The faculties throw up like mole hills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. -Edward Young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy is second nature for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy is second nature for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  I am not what I ought to be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1885]]></link><description><![CDATA[How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61438]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52482]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17324</guid></item></channel></rss>