<?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[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7180]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time, and fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means of great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head, that softness and idleness were to be avoided, that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a tough kid. He wrestles a whole match. He doesn't stop wrestling. If you take a second off with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a tough kid. He wrestles a whole match. He doesn't stop wrestling. If you take a second off with that kid -- obviously that's the result your going to get. But we're going to prepare for him because we're definitely going to see him again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39593]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57296]]></link><description><![CDATA[To all proportioned terms he must dispense And make the sound a picture of the sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53616</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[If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60037]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57936]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet;  To seek what ancient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9939]]></link><description><![CDATA[With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet;  To seek what ancient sages sought,   Physic and food in sour and sweet,    To take what passes in good part,     And keep the hiccups from the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four of them went to the hyperbaric chamber at Shock Trauma, they were experiencing more severe symptoms and had been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four of them went to the hyperbaric chamber at Shock Trauma, they were experiencing more severe symptoms and had been for several days, severe flu-like symptoms. There were another four taken to St. Agnes Hospital for observation, they were experiencing more minor symptoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless experience be a jewel. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless experience be a jewel. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great house is full of saucy servants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great house is full of saucy servants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overwork: n., a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if all the myths were true... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43609]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if all the myths were true...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a little man could not have made so big a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a little man could not have made so big a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anon, as patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed,  His silence will sit drooping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anon, as patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed,  His silence will sit drooping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the west; and the sun never sets that it does not shine on some of his dominions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good grammar develops over time, so relax and put down the red pen. Kids need to make mistakes in writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good grammar develops over time, so relax and put down the red pen. Kids need to make mistakes in writing to move toward correctness. They freeze up if they think you'll pounce on every error. You want your daughters to keep writing, since this is the best way for them to develop strong usage skills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until now we cannot get on the with task of disputing the illegality of the trial or any charge because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until now we cannot get on the with task of disputing the illegality of the trial or any charge because no official document has been presented so far. It's our right to see the charges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  Jesus used the term abba (which means father or "daddy" in his Aramaic mother tongue), as an address in his prayers to God. There are no other examples of this usage in contemporary Judaism, but Jesus always addressed God in this way. The others perhaps regarded it as child's talk, a form of expression too disrespectful to be so used. But for Jesus, abba expressed the filial intimacy he felt toward his Father. As the divine Son of the Father, Jesus enjoyed a unique relationship with him, and his mission in the world consisted in opening up the blessings of sonship to those who believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28035]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't think it was a mistake to open early for Katrina victims, and if we have to close for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't think it was a mistake to open early for Katrina victims, and if we have to close for a month to regroup, I'll be glad to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why be concerned? There's a lot of baseball left to play. We haven't pressed all year so there's no reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why be concerned? There's a lot of baseball left to play. We haven't pressed all year so there's no reason to start now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The budget surplus is real, not imagined, and it means that the tax is no longer needed, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The budget surplus is real, not imagined, and it means that the tax is no longer needed,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the shell of a tortoise, to signify two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the shell of a tortoise, to signify two great duties of a virtuous woman, which are to keep home and be silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221  It is the fellowship of the Cross to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221  It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the England team don't want to experience another hellish week like the one that lies ahead of them now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42554]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the England team don't want to experience another hellish week like the one that lies ahead of them now, with only pride at stake, they had better get used to the idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36731]]></link><description><![CDATA[At some point the army is going to react and then the LTTE will retaliate. They have set in motion a process. At some point the bubble is bound to burst and then we do not know what will happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw the bags and I said to myself that somebody is dumping trash here. Then I saw what was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw the bags and I said to myself that somebody is dumping trash here. Then I saw what was inside. I saw the deer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen Spielberg at a breast cancer benefit and he explained that he’d seen me on Saturday Night Live and thought I was ready for a movie. He said, ‘You go to the ledge and are unafraid to jump off.’ That was the biggest compliment to me because he was saying I was free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All currency is neurotic currency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All currency is neurotic currency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32898]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... As soon as you drift out of Dade County you find that the Alice in Wonderland world ends at the Dade-Broward line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who trust us educate us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who trust us educate us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many otherwise intelligent people have never read with adult attention either the four Gospels or the Letters of the New Testament. When they so do, to my certain knowledge they not infrequently become converted. Indeed, I know of no adult who has seriously studied the New Testament and rejected the stories of Christ as mythical or the evidence of changed lives in the Letters as mere fabrication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21929</guid></item></channel></rss>