<?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[He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51608]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who gets the better of an irascible temperament conquers his worst enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.rnRobert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.rnRobert Hall]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childish petition for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people regard prayer as a formalized routine of words, a refuge for weaklings, or a childish petition for material things. We sadly undervalue prayer when we conceive it in these terms, just as we should underestimate rain by describing it as something that fills the birdbath in our garden. Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality -- the ultimate integration of man's highest faculties. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1490]]></link><description><![CDATA[For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  As the devil showed great skill in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  As the devil showed great skill in tempting men to perdition., equal skill ought to be shown in saving them. The devil studied the nature of each man, seized upon the traits of his soul, adjusted himself to them and insinuated himself gradually into his victims's confidence -- suggesting splendors to the ambitious, gain to the covetous, delight to the sensuous, and a false appearance of piety to the pious -- and a winner of souls ought to act in the same cautious and skillful way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one delights more in vengeance than a woman.Juvenal, Satires, XIII. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60474]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one delights more in vengeance than a woman.Juvenal, Satires, XIII.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to sit down with this guy and ask him why he did it. It might have to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35578]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to sit down with this guy and ask him why he did it. It might have to do with him being a veterinarian and not a physician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,Each note of which calls like a little sister,Those airs slow, slow ascending, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices,Each note of which calls like a little sister,Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreathsRise from the hearthstones of our native hamletsCyrano Act 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a good table and attend to the ladies. [Fr., Tenez bonne table et soignez les femmes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a good table and attend to the ladies. [Fr., Tenez bonne table et soignez les femmes.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am gone, remember me with smiles and laughter, as that is how I will remember you. But if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am gone, remember me with smiles and laughter, as that is how I will remember you. But if you should remember me with tears and sorrow, I may not remember you at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55498]]></link><description><![CDATA[He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Game two was) a little sloppier on both sides. The temperature goes down, kids get tired, that's high school baseball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34548]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Game two was) a little sloppier on both sides. The temperature goes down, kids get tired, that's high school baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book you don't read can't help ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The book you don't read can't help]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter is a smart player. He can read the play and he doesn't have to run from one corner to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peter is a smart player. He can read the play and he doesn't have to run from one corner to the other. He always seems to be in good position. He's a guy who would rather pass than shoot. He's done exactly what I thought he would.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51564]]></link><description><![CDATA[These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is like a vase.. once it's broken, though you can fix it the vase will never be same again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23710]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15309]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64796]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Ourrewards will always be in exact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Ourrewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40662]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[State level legislators can use these scientifically researched results to help make policy. It's a source of information to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39923]]></link><description><![CDATA[State level legislators can use these scientifically researched results to help make policy. It's a source of information to know what's going on in rural Iowa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears,  With nodding arches, broken temples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54410]]></link><description><![CDATA[See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears,  With nodding arches, broken temples spread!   The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ve released the original, high-resolution artwork under a license that allows anyone to take that art and use it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31292]]></link><description><![CDATA[ve released the original, high-resolution artwork under a license that allows anyone to take that art and use it in their own creations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58172]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the significant decline in our stock price over the last few weeks, the company believes that the purchase of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the significant decline in our stock price over the last few weeks, the company believes that the purchase of its stock represents a very attractive investment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26767]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictynna, goodman Dull. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictynna, goodman Dull. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are remembered for the rules you break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63336]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are remembered for the rules you break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21056]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing about baseball is, it takes one pitch to change a game. He just got the bat head out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing about baseball is, it takes one pitch to change a game. He just got the bat head out. Every pitcher in America's going to say, 'Darn it, that shouldn't have been hit.' But he hit my pitch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5837]]></link><description><![CDATA[For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38411]]></link><description><![CDATA[While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44314]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64139]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She stands on tiptoe to be kissed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50483]]></link><description><![CDATA[She stands on tiptoe to be kissed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50483</guid></item></channel></rss>