<?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[Most mimes are annoying. It's sort of like the Macarena on a smaller scale. A large number of people looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most mimes are annoying. It's sort of like the Macarena on a smaller scale. A large number of people looking silly doing the same things over and over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything tothemselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21806]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything tothemselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old man in love is like a flower in winter ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10926]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old man in love is like a flower in winter]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61189]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just stood there and watched it burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just stood there and watched it burn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got high expectations this year. We like to think we're going to play for a national championship, but if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got high expectations this year. We like to think we're going to play for a national championship, but if we're going to play for a national championship, we've got to play better than this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14123]]></link><description><![CDATA[That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average Democrat or Republican, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wonder why we're electing Democrats and Republicans who seem to be more extreme than the average Democrat or Republican, and when they get to the statehouse, they don't seem to talk to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the best we've seen Hunter Jones throw the ball this year. That's the way he threw the ball ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41139]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the best we've seen Hunter Jones throw the ball this year. That's the way he threw the ball last year. We were just hoping he'd get it back on track, and I think he did tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar is not a time of waste ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar is not a time of waste]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50159]]></link><description><![CDATA[He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19966]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  If it be the earnest desire and longing of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  If it be the earnest desire and longing of your heart to be merciful as He is merciful; to be full of His unwearied patience, to dwell in His unalterable meekness; if you long to be like Him in universal, impartial love; if you desire to communicate every good to every creature that you are able; if you love and practice everything that is good, righteous, and lovely for its own sake, because it is good, righteous, and lovely; and resist no evil but with goodness; then you have the utmost certainty that the Spirit of God dwells and governs in you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pure eye for the true vision of another's claims can only go with the loving heart. The man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pure eye for the true vision of another's claims can only go with the loving heart. The man who hates can hardly be delicate in doing Justice, say to his neighbor's love, to his neighbor's predilections and peculiarities. It is hard enough to be just to our friends; and how shall our enemies fare with us?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The end of all my labors has come. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274   The end of all my labors has come. All that I have written appears to me as much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything can happen. It's very unstable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything can happen. It's very unstable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes people to run a city. And they are expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42114]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes people to run a city. And they are expensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19985]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471  Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus  The moment we make up our minds that we are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus  The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out of the world's parade... We acquire a new viewpoint; a new and different psychology will be formed within us; a new power will begin to surprise us by its upsurgings and its outgoings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22425]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail!  Pierce with thy trill the dark,   Like a glittering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail!  Pierce with thy trill the dark,   Like a glittering music-spark,    When the earth grows pale and dumb."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel  That shall laugh at all disaster,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel  That shall laugh at all disaster,   And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide;  Softly she was going up,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moving moon went up to the sky, And nowhere did abide;  Softly she was going up,   And a star or two beside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you do succeed, try something harder ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59896]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you do succeed, try something harder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery!  Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery!  Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour,   The mind annihilates, and calls for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61434</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[The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9847</guid></item></channel></rss>