<?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[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had 420 females and 723 males compete in the last two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had 420 females and 723 males compete in the last two years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a healthy two-way trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a healthy two-way trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50476]]></link><description><![CDATA[One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of ourcontrols. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of ourcontrols.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47106]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty is said to be less. In other words, men are thought to be more under the control of extra-legal authorities, and to defer more to those around them, in pursuing even their lawful and innocent occupations, than in almost every other country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are the pauses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are the pauses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the only rating that should matter to her because people are voting with their money, by betting that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39077]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the only rating that should matter to her because people are voting with their money, by betting that the peso will continue to climb because she would pursue her economic reforms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate; But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame.  Ah, do you dream to be mistaken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is advertisement! 'tis almost fate; But, little mushroom-men, of puff-ball fame.  Ah, do you dream to be mistaken great   And to be really great are just the same?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/828]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind,  Hath look'd on no religion scornfully  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind,  Hath look'd on no religion scornfully   That men did ever find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11194]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23953]]></link><description><![CDATA[On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares nearly $75 per round-trip ticket. During this time period, our average fare increased by only $15.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this deal, India has sent a signal that it can expand its nuclear arsenal as it wants, and that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32994]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this deal, India has sent a signal that it can expand its nuclear arsenal as it wants, and that's bad news for China and Pakistan. This creates suspicion, which is what you don't want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every law is an infraction of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every law is an infraction of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest sin is sitting on your ass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812   Relieve and comfort all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812   Relieve and comfort all the persecuted and afflicted; speak peace to troubled consciences; strengthen the weak; confirm the strong; instruct the ignorant; deliver the oppressed from him that spoileth him; and relieve the needy that hath no helper; and bring us all, by the waters of comfort, and in the ways of righteousness, to the kingdom of rest and glory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some dried off better than others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some dried off better than others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7395]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We                    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We                                                                                                                         want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59352]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd attribute the lack of wild fruits to the drought we've been experiencing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd attribute the lack of wild fruits to the drought we've been experiencing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19927]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out in force in a display of respect as I had here today. There were state highway department workers at every intersection on the way to the cemetery and about 40 to 50 state trucks on hand. The Illinois Department of Transportation takes care of its own. It was very impressive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942    There is [in these Wesleyan hymns] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942    There is [in these Wesleyan hymns] the solid structure of historic dogma; there is the passionate thrill of present experience; but there is, too, the glory of a mystic sunlight coming directly from another world. This transfigures history and experience. This puts past and present into the timeless, eternal now. This brings together God and man until Wesley talks with God as a man talks with his friend. This gives to the hymnbook its divine audacity, those passages only to be understood by such as have sat in heavenly places in Christ Jesus and, being caught up into paradise, have heard unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an escalation that we have been expecting, ... The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36811]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an escalation that we have been expecting, ... The government of Iraq is determined to confront the enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43833]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None so blind as those that will not see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4337]]></link><description><![CDATA[None so blind as those that will not see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15077]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56892]]></link><description><![CDATA[In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/116]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51983]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss Piggy to Johnny Carson.. do you think I am Oscar material?Johnny Carson: Oscar Mayer maybeNBC Tonight Show writershttp://www.mad-cow.org. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss Piggy to Johnny Carson.. do you think I am Oscar material?Johnny Carson: Oscar Mayer maybeNBC Tonight Show writershttp://www.mad-cow.org.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shelved around us lie The mummied authors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shelved around us lie The mummied authors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -King John. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is my best quality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is my best quality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great ideas are dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20282]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great ideas are dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28143]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they were made or just happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28143</guid></item></channel></rss>