<?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[Jest not in earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jest not in earnest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest distance between two people is a goodlaugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest distance between two people is a goodlaugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Concluding a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Concluding a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2585]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I basically shoot the movie the way I think it should be cut, so my directives to the editor are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I basically shoot the movie the way I think it should be cut, so my directives to the editor are in the camera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5422]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22813]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. -Alexander Graham Bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enabling multiple service providers to be able to interoperate, we think, is a tremendous opportunity for the industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enabling multiple service providers to be able to interoperate, we think, is a tremendous opportunity for the industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statistics seem to reflect that many of the people who sought shelter in and around Houston have decided to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40993]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statistics seem to reflect that many of the people who sought shelter in and around Houston have decided to stay. Luckily, our market had the available supply of homes for sale and lease to absorb the number of people who needed a place to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41011]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3513]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59461]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A royal train, believe me. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A royal train, believe me. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going through hell, keep going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13631]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going through hell, keep going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27150]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is no struggle there is no progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is no struggle there is no progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel pretty much validated. All this time we thought that things had been wrong (with) the quality of care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40831]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel pretty much validated. All this time we thought that things had been wrong (with) the quality of care that we received. And now we know that's the case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Wilson's cousins, Michael Allen and Johnny Allen, live in an apartment upstairs from him and are among five evacuees who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42413]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Wilson's cousins, Michael Allen and Johnny Allen, live in an apartment upstairs from him and are among five evacuees who have enrolled in classes at the University of Texas at El Paso.] I didn't want to lose out on a whole semester, ... They made it real easy for us to enroll in school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All these tests were ordered by the emergency department, ... I talked to radiologists at the hospital and they said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40694]]></link><description><![CDATA[All these tests were ordered by the emergency department, ... I talked to radiologists at the hospital and they said they have told the ER not to do those tests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37979]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moment of silence is not inherently religious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moment of silence is not inherently religious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  Men must not content themselves with the lawfulness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  Men must not content themselves with the lawfulness of their employments, but must consider whether they use them, as they are to use everything, as strangers and pilgrims that are baptised into the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that we are to follow Him in a wise and heavenly course of life, in the mortification of the worldly desires, and in purifying and preparing their souls for the blessed enjoyment of God. For to be vain, or proud, or covetous, or ambitious, in the common course of our business, is as contrary to these holy tempers of Christianity as cheating and dishonesty. If a glutton were to say, in excuse of his gluttony, that he only eats such things as it is lawful to eat, he would make as good an excuse for himself as the greedy, covetous, ambitious tradesman that would say that he only deals in lawful business. For, as a Christian is not only required to be honest, but to be of a Christian spirit, and make his life an exercise of humility, repentance, and heavenly affection, so all tempers that are contrary to these are as contrary to Christianity as cheating is contrary to honesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may appear a low-level crime, but it's the kind of crime that seriously affects the lives of people in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may appear a low-level crime, but it's the kind of crime that seriously affects the lives of people in Edinburgh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both countries are convinced they're going to meet their future financing needs on the domestic markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both countries are convinced they're going to meet their future financing needs on the domestic markets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46174]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is first in time has the prior right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50551]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is first in time has the prior right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This meeting greatly strengthened my conviction that cooperation between both countries may have another strong boost. We identified a desire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28245]]></link><description><![CDATA[This meeting greatly strengthened my conviction that cooperation between both countries may have another strong boost. We identified a desire for cooperation in all levels of government, not only of the Executive, but also of the Legislative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of the Olympics, we decided the books had to have something to do with competition, teamwork and sportsmanship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of the Olympics, we decided the books had to have something to do with competition, teamwork and sportsmanship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are the only animals who eat themselves to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/743]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are the only animals who eat themselves to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have learnt life's lessons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50520]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have learnt life's lessons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every man practise the trade which he best understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19503</guid></item></channel></rss>