<?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[Obviously I?m disappointed. But you don?t always get everything that you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously I?m disappointed. But you don?t always get everything that you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23433]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their flight   Are the most exquisite and strong;    Like angel's visits short and bright,     Mortality's too weak to bear them long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11798]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's unlikely that you'll get a bear market because the fundamentals are too good. On the other hand, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37126]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's unlikely that you'll get a bear market because the fundamentals are too good. On the other hand, you're not going to make new highs in the market as long as we have uncertainty in terms of interest rates,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1674]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never have anything you don't respect, including lot's of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63219]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never have anything you don't respect, including lot's of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47589]]></link><description><![CDATA[To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is a safe kind of high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is a safe kind of high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business today consists in persuading crowds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business today consists in persuading crowds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]   - Voltaire (Francois Marie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best Buy wants to bring customers exclusive music entertainment from their favorite artists. Public Enemy is one of the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Best Buy wants to bring customers exclusive music entertainment from their favorite artists. Public Enemy is one of the most influential rap groups of all time and they've captivated hip hop fans for years. This new album brings more of the energy and passion that makes this group great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25754]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It affects working waterfront, access, scenic view and character of a town. We're really trying to open that discussion and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37813]]></link><description><![CDATA[It affects working waterfront, access, scenic view and character of a town. We're really trying to open that discussion and get towns to cooperate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54084]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just looked a lot worse than it was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just looked a lot worse than it was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64345]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20435]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fault is sooner found than mended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44199]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fault is sooner found than mended.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34929]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42509]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so,  A thousand liveried angels ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5793]]></link><description><![CDATA[So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so,  A thousand liveried angels lacky her,   Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,  Christ-like is it for sin to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,  Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,   God-like is it all sin to leave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44566]]></link><description><![CDATA[If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45818]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine and women bring misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. -James L. Fisher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're aware of it, and we're monitoring the developments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36022]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're aware of it, and we're monitoring the developments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60356]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Precaution is better than cure. [Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Precaution is better than cure. [Lat., Praestat cautela quam medela.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    Most people feel unworthy of forgiveness. They have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    Most people feel unworthy of forgiveness. They have a tremendous sense of unworthiness, even if outwardly they are antagonistic toward God and the Gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62764]]></link><description><![CDATA[A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42786</guid></item></channel></rss>