<?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[The only deadly sin I know is cynicism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30446]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you proud right there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17054]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The heart] is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12598]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The heart] is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This huge middle class has a lot of disposable income. It's also hungry for Western-branded goods. Wal-Mart early on found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34651]]></link><description><![CDATA[This huge middle class has a lot of disposable income. It's also hungry for Western-branded goods. Wal-Mart early on found this fact to be very profitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to stop at 3 feet and let it set a little, see how it looks along the seams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30188]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to stop at 3 feet and let it set a little, see how it looks along the seams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50552]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go byyourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21309]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go byyourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,  'Tis then delightful misery no more,   But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23174]]></link><description><![CDATA[But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse,  'Tis then delightful misery no more,   But agony unmix'd, incessant gall,    Corroding every thought, and blasting all     Love's paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s impudence, ask yourself at once, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂCan the world exist without impudent people?ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â It cannot; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41480]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are outraged by somebodyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s impudence, ask yourself at once, ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…ÂCan the world exist without impudent people?ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one? [Lat., Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All three doubles teams played very well. Our No. 1 doubles (Greg Janssen and Todd Fuller) got off to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33357]]></link><description><![CDATA[All three doubles teams played very well. Our No. 1 doubles (Greg Janssen and Todd Fuller) got off to a slow start but managed to turn the match around when they needed to and came back strong in the second and third set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17397]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. - Waiting for God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a novelist, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a novelist,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58548]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12917]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61629]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/177]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46958]]></link><description><![CDATA[England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mountaine and a river are good neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49062]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I talk to people when I go out, I find that most of them can remember at least one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30501]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I talk to people when I go out, I find that most of them can remember at least one incident that they knew of going back to the '70s and '80s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4352]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've known for a very long time that I was being downloaded more than Cindy Margolis. I got fed up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've known for a very long time that I was being downloaded more than Cindy Margolis. I got fed up, and I finally had time to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9236]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59584]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have always had profound ties, of respect and mutual cooperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have always had profound ties, of respect and mutual cooperation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17919]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16235]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that keepes his owne makes warre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that keepes his owne makes warre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15306]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We welcome news of the pope's arrival. It's a good thing -- it will promote good feelings among us all, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We welcome news of the pope's arrival. It's a good thing -- it will promote good feelings among us all, ... After all, it's the pope. He's not just anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He loved God, and he loved the community, and he couldn't leave one for the other. He saw that neighborhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39989]]></link><description><![CDATA[He loved God, and he loved the community, and he couldn't leave one for the other. He saw that neighborhood as holy ground. For him, that meant staying in it and cultivating its talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   As Christians, and followers of Jesus, we have not taken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   As Christians, and followers of Jesus, we have not taken pride half seriously enough. But the Devil has. The Devil knows that as long as he can control human pride it does not matter how many prayer meetings, how many services, how much devotion goes on -- he can still wrack any group of Christians, sooner or later, and frustrate God's purpose for them, and for the world.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn August 11, 1999 Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   Never... think we have a due knowledge of ourselves till we have been exposed to various kinds of temptations, and tried on every side. Integrity on one side of our character is no voucher for integrity on another. We cannot tell how we should act if brought under temptations different from those we have hitherto experienced. This thought should keep us humble. We are sinners, but we do not know how great. He alone knows who died for our sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real failure in life is the failure to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real failure in life is the failure to try.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is in art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is in art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3140</guid></item></channel></rss>