<?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[The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy -- I mean that if you are happy you will be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is behind, just learn from it. The future is ahead, must prepare for it. The present is here; you gotta live it..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets were past their prime, Yet their departing breath  Was sweeter, in the blast of death,   Than all the lavish fragrance of the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big enough presence and have enough people, maybe the General Assembly will listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better the feet slip then the tongue. [Better the feet slip than the tongue.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48414]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he. But we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19912]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pro football is like nuclear warfare. there are no winners, only survivors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16190]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4090]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4090</guid></item><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[Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best I Ever Had ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best I Ever Had]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20259]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109  For I seek not to understand in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109  For I seek not to understand in order that I may believe; but I believe in order that I may understand, for I believe for this reason: that unless I believe, I cannot understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess some of this was brought on myself, my stupidity. I don't know if it was naivety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess some of this was brought on myself, my stupidity. I don't know if it was naivety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63487]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49922]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is not leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is not leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some shelled out money for drugs and they need to be reimbursed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some shelled out money for drugs and they need to be reimbursed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are building may splendid churches in this country, but we are not providing leaders to run them. I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7386]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are building may splendid churches in this country, but we are not providing leaders to run them. I would rather have a wooden church with a splendid parson, than a splendid church with a wooden parson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52349]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patrons from around the world have always been gearing together for benefits--it's the serendipity effect, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patrons from around the world have always been gearing together for benefits--it's the serendipity effect,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56989]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33533]]></link><description><![CDATA[An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason, Observation, and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason, Observation, and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's starting to settle in by getting in a groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38568]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's starting to settle in by getting in a groove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53429]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52995]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most CPAs do between 45 to 50 percent of their work in two months out of the year. It makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most CPAs do between 45 to 50 percent of their work in two months out of the year. It makes for an extremely stressful time,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2843]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2843</guid></item></channel></rss>