<?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[Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8086]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find courage to accept thy good gifts, that the sorrowful may find courage to accept thy perfect gifts. For to men there is a difference of joy and of sorrow, but for thee, O Lord, there is no difference in these things; everything that comes from thee is a good and perfect gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law's made to take care o' raskills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24293]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law's made to take care o' raskills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love , if you have it , you don't need anything else...and if you don't have it , it harldy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love , if you have it , you don't need anything else...and if you don't have it , it harldy matters what else you have .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Frogs AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As hewas crossing through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Frogs AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As hewas crossing through the water he lost his footing, stumbled andfell, and not being able to rise on account of his load, groanedheavily. Some Frogs frequenting the pool heard his lamentation,and said, What would you do if you had to live here always as wedo, when you make such a fuss about a mere fall into the water?Men often bear little grievances with less courage thanthey do large misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a rinky-dink street-fest lineup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a rinky-dink street-fest lineup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5945]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57875]]></link><description><![CDATA[One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48331]]></link><description><![CDATA[An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52627]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citties are taken by the eares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citties are taken by the eares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full restoration, if you're talking about the way they were in 1972, I think is impossible. A lot of cities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full restoration, if you're talking about the way they were in 1972, I think is impossible. A lot of cities have been built in the lowlands that have been dried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who track the steps of Glory to the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who track the steps of Glory to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the track. I've never been on the NASCAR layout, but most of it is what we used last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42294]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the track. I've never been on the NASCAR layout, but most of it is what we used last year and I know I liked that. I'm going there because I want to win the race. We need to win in order to keep the championship fight open. I am going to Mexico with that goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your Lord's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your Lord's command,  Assist our song;  For else the theme  Too high doth seem  For mortal tongue.  Ye blessed souls at rest, Who ran this earthly race, And now, from sin released, Behold the Saviour's face,  God's praises sound,  As in his sight,  With sweet delight,  Ye do abound.  Ye saints, who toil below, Adore your heavenly King. And onward as ye go Some joyful anthem sing;  Take what he gives  And praise him still,  Through good or ill,  Who ever lives!  My soul, bear thou thy part, Triumph in God above: And with a well-tuned heart Sing thou the songs of love!  Let all thy days  Till life shall end,  Whate'er he send,  Be filled with praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got in there and I could not talk. I literally couldn't speak, just nightmare-froze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41894]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got in there and I could not talk. I literally couldn't speak, just nightmare-froze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low  As high he soar'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2335]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? who aspires must down as low  As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last   To basest things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3074]]></link><description><![CDATA[You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot to take in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29072]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot to take in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the irresistable desire to be desired irresistably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more indicators that are getting better than are getting worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34091]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more indicators that are getting better than are getting worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19811]]></link><description><![CDATA[For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. [Lat., Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil praecepta atque artes valere nisi adjuvante natura.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be unpleasant, but you can give a very hard signal which isn't going to hurt people as such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be unpleasant, but you can give a very hard signal which isn't going to hurt people as such but is going to at least give a chance of registering in the minds of the Iranian people that what their president is doing is unacceptable to the international community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charm is more than beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charm is more than beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61442]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -Victor Frank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6088]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -Victor Frank.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier, in full military array.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. . -C.G. Jung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Then are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that the real emotion is one of great pride, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37217]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that the real emotion is one of great pride,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14962]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -Galileo Galilei. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59867]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -Galileo Galilei.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is to be, it is up to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is to be, it is up to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;  Should the big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;  Should the big last extend the shoe too wide,   Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside;    The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein,     The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain;      And when too short the modish shoes are worn,       You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11260</guid></item></channel></rss>