<?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[I'm not really worried about it. I just tried to be a peacemaker... Sometimes it don't pay to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39660]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not really worried about it. I just tried to be a peacemaker... Sometimes it don't pay to be the good guy, ... I just take it with a grain of salt and move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures earlyin life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22694]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures earlyin life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55661]]></link><description><![CDATA[It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I've learned is you treat women right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64952]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I've learned is you treat women right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35099]]></link><description><![CDATA[To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get your feet on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get your feet on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26818]]></link><description><![CDATA[We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet:  One little hour! and then, away they speed   On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam,    To meet no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53554]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of the players that will start this season were the practice players last year. They were very instrumental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of the players that will start this season were the practice players last year. They were very instrumental in what was accomplished last season and now is their time to shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You start out massively over-eating because portions are larger, and things get activated in the brain and liver that fuel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41067]]></link><description><![CDATA[You start out massively over-eating because portions are larger, and things get activated in the brain and liver that fuel the upward movement in body weight,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at you. You made a hole-in-one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In the  ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam  Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41327]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In the  ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam  Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... Three of the prayer leaders were  martyred during the Iran-Iraq war [of the 1980s].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power and diversity of the Armed Forces, active Guard and Reserve, the resolve of our fellow citizens, the flexibility in our command to navigate international waters that remain troubled are all essential to our security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65477]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16503]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn."Eat arsenic? Yes, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10203]]></link><description><![CDATA[ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn."Eat arsenic? Yes, all you get," Consenting, he did speak up;"'Tis better you should eat it, pet, Than put it in my teacup." --Joel Huck]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12509]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27013]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9265]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all their compliments do verses pay? They mayn't, yet these same poems make me gay]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were ten lepers healed, and only one turned back to give thanks, but it is to be noticed that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6893]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were ten lepers healed, and only one turned back to give thanks, but it is to be noticed that our Lord did not recall His gift from the other nine because of their lack of gratitude. When we begin to lessen our acts of kindness and helpfulness because we think those who receive do not properly appreciate what is done for them, it is time to question our own motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need a break these days. So many people and businesses are still displaced because of Katrina so we didn't really want to push the fund-raising side of the event and wanted to present it more as a way to relieve stress. Walking is good for the heart and a great way to relieve stress, which everyone needs these days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56768]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27773]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's always pretty obvious to most of the public when something was done with heart and mind. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's always pretty obvious to most of the public when something was done with heart and mind. You can't fake it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty:--  Was thy dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty:--  Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change starts when someone sees the next step. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change starts when someone sees the next step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The names above him [Andrew Strauss] on the list date back generations to the days of cricketing folklore: Herbert Sutcliffe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The names above him [Andrew Strauss] on the list date back generations to the days of cricketing folklore: Herbert Sutcliffe, Len Hutton and Wally Hammond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take that life, beseech you, Which I so often owe; but your ring first,  And here the bracelet of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take that life, beseech you, Which I so often owe; but your ring first,  And here the bracelet of the truest princess   That ever swore her faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50522]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40247]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7753]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming into the game, we had everything laid out on offense. If they played zone, we had to get a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming into the game, we had everything laid out on offense. If they played zone, we had to get a lot of movement and screening to get our shots. We did a good job of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the prevention of control by others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let us be discouraged with ourselves; it is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked: on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light. And let us remember, for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till He begin to cure them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None saies his Garner is full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49663]]></link><description><![CDATA[None saies his Garner is full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49663</guid></item></channel></rss>