<?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[sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28563]]></link><description><![CDATA[sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36792]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23408]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-nighthacking (and/or conversations with God). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-nighthacking (and/or conversations with God).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11398]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the sin which is not Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin  Or virtue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48780]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the sin which is not Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin  Or virtue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60263]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, is the unkindness of my dear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law of heaven and earth is life for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24255]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law of heaven and earth is life for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50701]]></link><description><![CDATA[A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the dream of a man awake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the dream of a man awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we found out that they were going to close, we had to go out and find another supplier. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38693]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we found out that they were going to close, we had to go out and find another supplier. It is possible that we could purchase some things from them on a spot basis. But that wouldn't be much compared to the way things were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are deeply saddened to hear of the many victims caught in the devastating path of the hurricane. So many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30941]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are deeply saddened to hear of the many victims caught in the devastating path of the hurricane. So many people have been adversely affected by this natural disaster, and our benefit poker tournament is the least we can do to help ease the pain of those who were most affected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime they can point to something concrete, something that's happening, it helps them refute all the allegations, all the daily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime they can point to something concrete, something that's happening, it helps them refute all the allegations, all the daily news that comes in on the ongoing violence and the more-structural problems,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53375]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist   The Present is the point at which Time touches Eternity. Of the present moment -- and of it only -- humans have an experience analogous to the experience which God has of reality as a whole; in it alone, freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with Eternity (which means being concerned with Him) or with the Present -- either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself; or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good composer does not imitate; he steals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to know you can first. How comes later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66858]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to know you can first. How comes later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The living need more charity than the dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The living need more charity than the dead]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truest SUCCESS is but the development of self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truest SUCCESS is but the development of self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47125]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought so hard I got a headache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought so hard I got a headache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25224]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse,  Not more distinct from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse,  Not more distinct from harmony divine   The constant creaking of a country sign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24871]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words of love, are works of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words of love, are works of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune reigns in gifts of the world. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune reigns in gifts of the world. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To thee, O God, we turn for peace; but grant us, too, the blessed assurance that nothing shall deprive us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8161]]></link><description><![CDATA[To thee, O God, we turn for peace; but grant us, too, the blessed assurance that nothing shall deprive us of that peace, neither ourselves, nor our foolish, earthly desires, nor my wild longings, nor the anxious cravings of my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8513]]></link><description><![CDATA[If... you are ever tempted to think that we modern Western Europeans cannot really be so very bad because we are, comparatively speaking, humane -- if, in other words, you think God might be content with us on that ground -- ask yourself whether you think God ought to have been content with the cruelty of past ages because they excelled in courage or chastity. You will see at once that this is an impossibility. From considering how the cruelty of our ancestors looks to us, you may get some inkling of how our softness, worldliness, and timidity would have looked to them, and hence how both must look to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46723]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe,  They sit, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe,  They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme,   Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go,    Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24455]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until one has loved an animal a part of one\'s soul remains unawakened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until one has loved an animal a part of one\'s soul remains unawakened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66687</guid></item></channel></rss>