<?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[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr    There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union gives strength to the humble. [Lat., Auxilia humilia firma consensus facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Union gives strength to the humble. [Lat., Auxilia humilia firma consensus facit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is a little too bright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolutism tempered by assassination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolutism tempered by assassination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry is the sacred disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry is the sacred disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been criticism of me from certain quarters among supporters and I can understand and respect that. It comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been criticism of me from certain quarters among supporters and I can understand and respect that. It comes with the territory. Perhaps I have taken this club as far as I can and now it is time for the mantle to pass on to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29766]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy,a million deaths is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11385]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy,a million deaths is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  There is a pride of faith, more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  There is a pride of faith, more unforgiveable and dangerous than the pride of the intellect. It reveals a split personality in which faith is "observed" and appraised, thus negating that unity born of a dying-unto-self, which is the definition of faith. To "value" faith is to turn it into a metaphysical magic, the advantages of which ought to be reserved for a spiritual elite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my easement sing,  Though it should prove a farewell lay   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my easement sing,  Though it should prove a farewell lay   And this our parting spring.    . . . .     Then, little Bird, this boon confer,      Come, and my requiem sing,       Nor fail to be the harbinger        Of everlasting spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clever men are sometimes the dupes of their own cleverness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clever men are sometimes the dupes of their own cleverness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's got his very own jacuzzi. He can go sit in the sun, or have a dip in the water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39317]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's got his very own jacuzzi. He can go sit in the sun, or have a dip in the water, the same ritual as in the wild.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is what works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is what works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel the coast is getting something rammed down the throat by the rest of the state and in particular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel the coast is getting something rammed down the throat by the rest of the state and in particular by Haley Barbour who used to be a lobbyist for the petroleum industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray;  Rosy and round as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9933]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Paris a queer little man you may see, A little man all in gray;  Rosy and round as an apple is he,   Content with the present whate'er it may be,    While from care and from cash he is equally free,     And merry both night and day!      "Ma foi! I laugh at the world," says he,       "I laugh at the world, and the world laughs at me!"        What a gay little man in gray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm not holding my breath for that. It's drawing attention away from third-quarter numbers that, despite GM, are really pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1892]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27703]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52522]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've won at every level, except college and pro. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've won at every level, except college and pro.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,  but manifestations of strength and resolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,  but manifestations of strength and resolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66447]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-- This grave shall have a living monument.  An hour of quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.-- This grave shall have a living monument.  An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;   Till then in patience our proceeding be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope:  I have hope to live, and am prepared to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51394]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope:  I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping Doubt]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't view this as the start of a weaker trend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't view this as the start of a weaker trend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower  That scorns the eye of vulgar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower  That scorns the eye of vulgar light,   Begins to bloom for sons of night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been cheering these dudes on for about 80 games now. Time for them to sit down and relax and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28780]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been cheering these dudes on for about 80 games now. Time for them to sit down and relax and watch us play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was not dogma that moved the world, but life. Frequently, when rival parties and rival nations fought with one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was not dogma that moved the world, but life. Frequently, when rival parties and rival nations fought with one another as to which of two opposed dogmas was the truth, they had been arrayed against one another by more deep-seated and vital causes, and merely inscribed at the last the dogmas on their standards or chose them as watchwords or symbols. We are tired of those elaborate discussions of the fine, wire-drawn, subtle distinctions between sects, and those elaborate discussions of the principles involved in heresies, and we desire to see the real differences in life and conduct receive more attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked about coming out and playing 32 minutes of solid basketball and I think we played 27 or 28 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34115]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked about coming out and playing 32 minutes of solid basketball and I think we played 27 or 28 minutes very well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear  That which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62362]]></link><description><![CDATA[What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear  That which disfigures it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A City that parlies is half gotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49007]]></link><description><![CDATA[A City that parlies is half gotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, there are two paths you can go byBut in the long runThere's still time to change the road you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, there are two paths you can go byBut in the long runThere's still time to change the road you're on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53056]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/176</guid></item></channel></rss>