<?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 accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. [Fr., L'accent du pays ou l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et dans le coeur comme dans le langage.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A report to the Security Council initiates a chain of events... that breed tension and add volatility to an already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A report to the Security Council initiates a chain of events... that breed tension and add volatility to an already vulnerable political situation in the region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44086]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54773]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows--  The best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows--  The best I had, a princess wrought it me--   And I did never ask it you again;    And with my hand at midnight held your head,     And like the watchful minutes to the hour,      Still and anon cheered up the heavy time,       Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27914]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that marries late, marries ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49378]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that marries late, marries ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity with ourselves in matters which we regard as essential, and that a failure to insist on this will involve compromise in regard to what is essential to the Church's being. But for precisely the same reason, we cannot admit a demand from others for any changes in ourselves which would seem to imply a denial that we already possess the esse of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.  Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61422]]></link><description><![CDATA[What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.  Is this too little?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I discover who I am, I'll be free. -Ralph Ellison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22805]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I discover who I am, I'll be free. -Ralph Ellison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52045]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kristin and Molly beat a solid doubles team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kristin and Molly beat a solid doubles team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62993]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home: For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy:  I give Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ  I give Thee thanks, O God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood wants press, any kind of press. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32987]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted.  There are some you love, I know;   Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted.  There are some you love, I know;   Be not loath to tell them so.    Lips go dry and eyes grow wet     Waiting to be warmly met,      Keep them not in waiting yet;       Kisses kept are wasted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy;  But round some corner of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy;  But round some corner of the streets of life   They of a sudden greet us with a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47090]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't leave if I thought that the sky was falling, ... I think the foundation is there. The institution ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29249]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't leave if I thought that the sky was falling, ... I think the foundation is there. The institution is set up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's elimination time and we were kind of tight. When the home run came it gave us a relief. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40571]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's elimination time and we were kind of tight. When the home run came it gave us a relief. That team is tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. Kim, Age 11 -Seneca. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57987]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. Kim, Age 11 -Seneca.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jody helps us out a lot, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jody helps us out a lot,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25345]]></link><description><![CDATA[University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28735]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a misunderstanding. The justice did not intend for the event to be closed to print press. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39609]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a misunderstanding. The justice did not intend for the event to be closed to print press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22079]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just want to see how long I can keep this thing going. The easiest thing is dying. Living is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just want to see how long I can keep this thing going. The easiest thing is dying. Living is a a pain in the butt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40221</guid></item></channel></rss>