<?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[One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11345]]></link><description><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known sorrow--therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily  Than those who never sorrowed upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24174]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known sorrow--therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily  Than those who never sorrowed upon earth   And know not laughter's worth.    I have known laughter--therefore I     May sorrow with you far more tenderly      Than those who never guess how sad a thing       Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going beyond is as bad as falling short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going beyond is as bad as falling short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25984]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear  The trumpet of contention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear  The trumpet of contention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nimbly they seized and secreted their prey, Alive and wriggling in the elastic net,  Which Nature hung beneath their grasping beaks;   Till, swoln, with captures, the unwieldy burden    Clogg'd their slow flight, as heavily to land,     These mighty hunters of the deep return'd.      There on the cragged cliffs they perch'd at ease,       Gorging their hapless victims one by one;        Then full and weary, side by side, they slept,         Till evening roused them to the chase again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a golfer -- not an athlete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57539]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a golfer -- not an athlete.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more to life than increasing its speed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22727]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more to life than increasing its speed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were not ready to play. The matches we won, everybody contributed and the most we lost everybody contributed. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33816]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were not ready to play. The matches we won, everybody contributed and the most we lost everybody contributed. I believe by the end of the season we'll be a pretty good team. To finish in the top half at this tournament is a good sign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11213]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kind of technique will enable medical centers like ours to to bring advances in medical techniques to others more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35506]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kind of technique will enable medical centers like ours to to bring advances in medical techniques to others more quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt toshut our eyes against a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt toshut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of thesiren, till she transforms us into beasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's first concern is always the grass or their crops, but trees can suffer too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone's first concern is always the grass or their crops, but trees can suffer too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51521]]></link><description><![CDATA[O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin with another's to end with your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin with another's to end with your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a big problem. We're going to work on it. We're just not scoring, and that's something we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34399]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a big problem. We're going to work on it. We're just not scoring, and that's something we have to fix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going over these overheads over the highways, and what can we do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in dirt-poor hillbilly country. We lived this dry-below-the-waist kind of scene. If you were a sensual woman you were in league with that which is un-Christlike. Where I come from, a cockroach is a roach, and a cockerel is a rooster because they can't bring themselves to say cock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 Continuing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   As we get older, we know what we need most from forgiveness is not suspension of punishment, but assurance that love is unbroken even when we are separated... We must realize that God is against us when we are sinning; yet we dare trust that His gracious love reaches to us across the chasm which separates us from Him. When we understand His loving attitude and accept His Grace, He releases His love in us. By that love we are able to begin to keep His commands for us -- to love Him with heart, mind, soul and strength, and to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When luck runs out, sense runs in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22996]]></link><description><![CDATA[When luck runs out, sense runs in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7463]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence is clear. This reaches the top the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence is clear. This reaches the top the very top of our archdiocese, ... Regrettably, the perpetrators of these crimes and the people that protected them will never face the penalties they deserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34437]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4058]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is at home; it is we who have gone for a walk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53349]]></link><description><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17280]]></link><description><![CDATA[All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4897]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fall with awareness and acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fall with awareness and acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation is getting worse day-by-day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation is getting worse day-by-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile when it hurts most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile when it hurts most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill; Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?  Lord help 'em, how I pities them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56168]]></link><description><![CDATA[A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill; Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?  Lord help 'em, how I pities them   Unhappy folks on shore, now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is looking after a few bushes and shrubs and has even placed a circle of white stones around a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is looking after a few bushes and shrubs and has even placed a circle of white stones around a small palm tree,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13386</guid></item></channel></rss>