<?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[Those things that hurt, instruct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those things that hurt, instruct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shyness is just egotism out of its depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enjoy it, she would gauze it as her duty to do what she vowed to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to create a genuine "responsibility era" -- a genuine commitment to families and to the values they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to create a genuine "responsibility era" -- a genuine commitment to families and to the values they reflect -- is to begin with those to whom we owe the greatest responsibility -- those whom we most value -- our kids. Let's not just talk about it -- let's put kids first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We put bells on them, we're putting up another fence and doing more for security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39513]]></link><description><![CDATA[We put bells on them, we're putting up another fence and doing more for security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55371]]></link><description><![CDATA[In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very happy. I feel like I skied very well. It's unbelievable, I feel very strange. I never expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35212]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very happy. I feel like I skied very well. It's unbelievable, I feel very strange. I never expected this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, andabundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21519]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, andabundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, theywill keep getting a busy signal-and soon they'll forget my number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard people in support, strongly in support, and I've heard people that say if we go back into special ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard people in support, strongly in support, and I've heard people that say if we go back into special session, they're going to be down on the Capitol steps telling us to get out of there!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be fighting as long as Mr. Deby persists in his intransigence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28744]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be fighting as long as Mr. Deby persists in his intransigence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we were off of our game. They outplayed us, but it just wasn't our night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we were off of our game. They outplayed us, but it just wasn't our night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those accused have the right to know who the court members are. He might have a personal or political enmity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those accused have the right to know who the court members are. He might have a personal or political enmity with a court member,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you idolize someone for their accomplishments, and those accomplishments spurn you on to make gains in your own life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you idolize someone for their accomplishments, and those accomplishments spurn you on to make gains in your own life, then admiring a celebrity can have a positive influence on your ambition, or even your mental health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is thefourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effectiveself-management possible. It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21559]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is thefourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effectiveself-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choicesand to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather thanto be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developedthrough the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how touse this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas are bankrupt, and that the party basically takes their loyalty for granted, ... Then the Republicans start coming around and we're like the lonely girl standing against the wall at a dance. Even if you know it's lip service, you feel receptive, just because somebody has bothered to come over and pay attention to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world is nothing except it tend to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49969]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world is nothing except it tend to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See what a rent the envious Casca made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10794]]></link><description><![CDATA[See what a rent the envious Casca made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39101]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44114]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51407]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were some items and ideas they had that were solid, but a lot of these things we can do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were some items and ideas they had that were solid, but a lot of these things we can do in-house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish I might a rose-bud grow And thou wouldst cull me from the bower.  To place me on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish I might a rose-bud grow And thou wouldst cull me from the bower.  To place me on that breast of snow   Where I should bloom a wintry flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16739]]></link><description><![CDATA[One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A father in a canoein which his baby is seatedwalks more carefully than on land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15171]]></link><description><![CDATA[A father in a canoein which his baby is seatedwalks more carefully than on land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Ms. Andersen, who couldn't afford to live on campus, remembered meeting other commuters at their cars at the moment members ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31819]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Ms. Andersen, who couldn't afford to live on campus, remembered meeting other commuters at their cars at the moment members of the Alameda County Police force stormed up the avenue toward them. The National Guard closed in from the other direction, and overhead, a helicopter [hovered over] the assembled group.] I thought, 'How did we come to this?' ... I witnessed what I thought was the hypocrisy of some of those protests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a crazy son of a bitch. Do you think I have time to care about what all the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30239]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a crazy son of a bitch. Do you think I have time to care about what all the other ass holes care? If they don't like us fine. We don't play for the people, we play because we have fun doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do withthem that's important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22601]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do withthem that's important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42390]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, where you can actually take a wheelchair, go down ramps and go into the Pacific Ocean and touch the urchins and the starfish. That really impressed us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a mode of being which was purely natural; in other words, each of us also has fallen -- fallen, presumably in ways determined by his natural constitution, yet certainly, as conscience assures us, in ways for which we are morally answerable, and to which, in the moral constitution of the world, consequences attach which we must recognise as our due. They are not only results of our action, but results which that action has merited; and there is no moral hope for us unless we accept them as such.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6059]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tough lesson to learn in life is that not everyone wishes you well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tough lesson to learn in life is that not everyone wishes you well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,  "There is a God," thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,  "There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well:   In that thou sayest all. To Be is more    Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought,     Or reigned, or rested.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way Maine?s working families can afford this rate hike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40279]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way Maine?s working families can afford this rate hike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will be the best all-around boxing card ever here in Los Angeles, ... The prices of the card are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30304]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will be the best all-around boxing card ever here in Los Angeles, ... The prices of the card are affordable. They appeal to the ordinary boxing fan here in Los Angeles. You will not see tickets for $1000. Fans who love boxing can purchase tickets as low as $25. Over half the tickets are $50 and less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They dance, they revel, and they sing, Till the rude turrets shake and ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51110]]></link><description><![CDATA[They dance, they revel, and they sing, Till the rude turrets shake and ring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51110</guid></item></channel></rss>