<?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 tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  Complain as little as possible of your wrongs, for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  Complain as little as possible of your wrongs, for, as a general rule, you may be sure that complaining is sin: ... because self-love always magnifies our injuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My bottom line is that if the U.S. government just stands on the autopilot, just on the current trim line ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35956]]></link><description><![CDATA[My bottom line is that if the U.S. government just stands on the autopilot, just on the current trim line ... I think that it is more likely than not that we will see a nuclear bomb exploding in one of our cities in less than a decade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1841]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done. -Richard Needham.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36922]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18969]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15822]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the bright day that brings forth the adder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the bright day that brings forth the adder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prettiness dies first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prettiness dies first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62203]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;   'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting for peace is like having sex for virginity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting for peace is like having sex for virginity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64042]]></link><description><![CDATA[To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day;  Lies worse; and while it says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day;  Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest   With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4751]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever--  And it may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59393]]></link><description><![CDATA[You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever--  And it may be for a day and a night,   And it well may be forever.    But whether we meet or whether we part,     (For our ways are past our knowing)      A pledge from the heart to its fellow heart,       On the ways we all are going!        Here's luck!         For we know not where we are going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like Jesus being lifted up, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like Jesus being lifted up,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25423]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell me the odds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell me the odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21590</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[The decisions are made in conjunction with specialists, aviation specialists, and doctors and the passenger's doctor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36777]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decisions are made in conjunction with specialists, aviation specialists, and doctors and the passenger's doctor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. -Sir Hugh Walpoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible. Martha Washington ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible. Martha Washington -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13569]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force shites upon Reason's Back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force shites upon Reason's Back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16434</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[You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65503]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The high-tech arena is one of the areas where we are seeing the most growth in sabbatical programs. The concept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40261]]></link><description><![CDATA[The high-tech arena is one of the areas where we are seeing the most growth in sabbatical programs. The concept has been around for a long time, but it's just crept its way into mainstream employment benefits in the last few decades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself. [Fr., Cet animal est tres mechant;  Quand on l'attaque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2645]]></link><description><![CDATA[This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself. [Fr., Cet animal est tres mechant;  Quand on l'attaque il se defend.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, they always smell of bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood;  Maple and elm and towering pine   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around in silent grandeur stood The stately children of the wood;  Maple and elm and towering pine   Mantled in folds of dark woodbine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no foul play suspected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31667]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no foul play suspected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63762</guid></item></channel></rss>