<?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[Being happy doesn't always make us grateful, but being grateful will always make us happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being happy doesn't always make us grateful, but being grateful will always make us happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25473]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they'll say that the public chamber is the expression of civil society -- and all the rest of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they'll say that the public chamber is the expression of civil society -- and all the rest of us are marginal. Gradually people will forget that we exist. And to make that happen more quickly, that completely senseless bill has been passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63949]]></link><description><![CDATA[The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Motley 's the only wear. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Motley 's the only wear. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20553]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste makes waste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste makes waste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64758]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you had your life to live over again--you'd need more money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27780]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you had your life to live over again--you'd need more money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to livetwice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21872]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to livetwice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64582]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be our own before we can be another's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26298]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be our own before we can be another's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man meets his Waterloo at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man meets his Waterloo at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I 'll be hanged. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55849]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I 'll be hanged. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is the best possible cure for dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is the best possible cure for dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is an inhuman word. [Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is an inhuman word. [Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56334]]></link><description><![CDATA[In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.  Thine is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.  Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;   The rage but not the talent to abuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16805]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been no signs of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36634]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been no signs of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61798]]></link><description><![CDATA[What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27294]]></link><description><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A son should inherit his father's money - not his religion; he may be too lazy to build upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57234]]></link><description><![CDATA[A son should inherit his father's money - not his religion; he may be too lazy to build upon a new fortune but never too slow to catch up with a new creed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,  And shape the whisper of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57853]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees,  And shape the whisper of the throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must lead by example of mercy and forgiveness, a trait every Muslim must have by very definition of being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34342]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must lead by example of mercy and forgiveness, a trait every Muslim must have by very definition of being a follower of Islam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced that tragedy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and our mission is never to let it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[School districts are more clever than any legislator who can put this into existence. [Districts] can spin the data any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37534]]></link><description><![CDATA[School districts are more clever than any legislator who can put this into existence. [Districts] can spin the data any way they want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of the whole team's effort. With Ogre out, we had to have everybody step up. We wanted him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of the whole team's effort. With Ogre out, we had to have everybody step up. We wanted him to rest tonight. We don't know how long it will be before we have him back. We didn't want to risk making it worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37588</guid></item></channel></rss>