<?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 cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65565]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear is to heed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50408]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear is to heed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not unto another that which you would not he should do unto you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once while walking through the mall a guy came up to me and said, 'Hey, how's it going?' So I grabbed his arm and twisted it up behind his head and said 'Now who's asking the questions?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24037]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable, tresspass and Babylon and covenant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60826]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your damned nonsense can I stand twice or once, but sometimes always, by God, never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As cold as cucumbers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48515]]></link><description><![CDATA[As cold as cucumbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a signal that the Internet and technology brands are becoming more interwoven into everyday life. It's moved from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a signal that the Internet and technology brands are becoming more interwoven into everyday life. It's moved from a specialty niche to the center of people's lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks;  He comes--I see his glaring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21021]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, hark! what mean those yells and cries? His chain some furious madman breaks;  He comes--I see his glaring eyes:   Now, now, my dungeon grate he shakes.    Help! Help! He's gone!--O fearful woe,     Such screams to hear, such sights to see!      My brain, my brain,--I know, I know       I am not mad but soon shall be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They saw a lack of planning in other major events recently in the U.S., so they wanted to get a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41449]]></link><description><![CDATA[They saw a lack of planning in other major events recently in the U.S., so they wanted to get a step ahead of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a good move to endorse the first African-American presiding officer and an Italian-Irish soccer mom from Great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40843]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a good move to endorse the first African-American presiding officer and an Italian-Irish soccer mom from Great Neck. We're poster children for the New York State Democratic primary voters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination fromambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47364]]></link><description><![CDATA[The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination fromambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,andundernourishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they avoid an area because of development, it's not usually a matter of them being able to go somewhere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they avoid an area because of development, it's not usually a matter of them being able to go somewhere else, ... Eventually, we are going to lose that population.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11114]]></link><description><![CDATA[In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had an opportunity and it just didn't happen. We were in good shape in overtime, it just didn't go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34131]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had an opportunity and it just didn't happen. We were in good shape in overtime, it just didn't go our way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47335]]></link><description><![CDATA[All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied,  Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied,  Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13604]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was one of the greatest sports moments of my life. It was too cold to enjoy it outside, though. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32977]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was one of the greatest sports moments of my life. It was too cold to enjoy it outside, though. I enjoyed it in the locker room afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly. That is obviously a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34919]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly. That is obviously a direct driver of inflation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave Jesus Christ in the central place in one's life. The shortest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7906]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave Jesus Christ in the central place in one's life. The shortest possible description of a Christian -- a description with which the New Testament would fully agree -- is that a Christian is a person who can say: "For me Jesus Christ is Lord." Herbert Butterfield's words about facing the future are good: "Hold to Christ, and for the rest be totally uncommitted." Any alleged conversion which does not leave one totally committed solely to Jesus Christ is incomplete and imperfect. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up,  At once the wonder, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up,  At once the wonder, terror, and delight   Of distant nations; whose remotest shore    Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm;     Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults      Baffling, like thy hoar cliffs the loud sea-wave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history, of course, is the history of wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19358]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history, of course, is the history of wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru;  Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru;  Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,   And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2231]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Kerke the narre, from God more farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8687]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's unfortunate these members put the party in this situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's unfortunate these members put the party in this situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think  The nightingale, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think  The nightingale, if she should sing by day   When every goose is cackling, would be thought    No better a musician than the wren.     How many thing by season seasoned are      To their right praise and true perfection!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18441]]></link><description><![CDATA[When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to no one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been thesystematic organization of hatreds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been thesystematic organization of hatreds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was quite audacious and highly inappropriate. What was he afraid of being asked? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was quite audacious and highly inappropriate. What was he afraid of being asked?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28416</guid></item></channel></rss>