<?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 purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the sanest thing to do is just wallow in the misery for a while. Then climb out, grab a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the sanest thing to do is just wallow in the misery for a while. Then climb out, grab a towel, dry off, and go about living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   To have faith is to rely upon Christ, the Person, with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   To have faith is to rely upon Christ, the Person, with the whole heart. It is not the understanding of the mind, not the theological opinion, not creed, not organization, not ritual. It is the koinonia of the whole personality with God and Christ, ... This experience of communion with Christ is itself the continual attitude of dependence on the Saviour which we call faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2616]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. -HW Longfellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48414]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa E ducation is bitter but the fruit is sweet. -Lord Chesterfield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more pleasurable than to sit in the shade, sip gin and contemplate other people's adulteries, and while the wormy apple of marriage still lives, the novel will not die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kelly has everything we look for in a defensive lineman. He has great natural use of hands, he has very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kelly has everything we look for in a defensive lineman. He has great natural use of hands, he has very good initial quickness and very good feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49838]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's trying to figure out what those guys knew - and how she can get out of it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32055]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's trying to figure out what those guys knew - and how she can get out of it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wants Texas back. (when asked what terms Mexican-born pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela might settle for in his upcoming contract ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57631]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wants Texas back. (when asked what terms Mexican-born pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela might settle for in his upcoming contract negotiations)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25229]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats, and pease;  Thy turfy mountains, where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, fetches, oats, and pease;  Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,   And flat meads thatched with stover, them to keep;    Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,     Which spongy April at thy hest betrims      To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom groves,       Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,        Being lasslorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard;         And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,          Where thou thyself dost air--the queen o' th' sky,           Whose wat-ry arch and messenger am I,            Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,             Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,              To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain.               Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60403]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaulteth not itself, is not puffed up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4474]]></link><description><![CDATA[In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42845]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training. -- Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the unsolvable problem by inventing Nautilus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why and Wherefore set out one day, To hunt for a wild Negation.  They agreed to meet at a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why and Wherefore set out one day, To hunt for a wild Negation.  They agreed to meet at a cool retreat   On the Point of Interrogation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What they are doing is priceless, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39706]]></link><description><![CDATA[What they are doing is priceless,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The national assembly should draft the permanent constitution within a period ending by August 22. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The national assembly should draft the permanent constitution within a period ending by August 22.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They told me I could fill right in at the four spot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32712]]></link><description><![CDATA[They told me I could fill right in at the four spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a remedy for everything except death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a remedy for everything except death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are open to religious impression through the intellect, whereas ... there are at least four other gateways -- the emotions, the imagination, the aesthetic feeling, and the will -- through which they can be reached.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will be in good shape when the school year begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will be in good shape when the school year begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a pretty devastating loss last Friday, I wondered how the players would respond but I knew everything would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38074]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a pretty devastating loss last Friday, I wondered how the players would respond but I knew everything would be fine when I got to practice on Monday. By the time I got to practice, the players had already started running practice and I knew that they were serious about getting right back to work and were committed to bouncing back and playing to their capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38319]]></link><description><![CDATA[In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So often, it's the men and their business dealings that make it down through history. But this gives us a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40130]]></link><description><![CDATA[So often, it's the men and their business dealings that make it down through history. But this gives us a chance to look at the females of these times and the strong roles they played in society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - The Would-be Gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45087</guid></item></channel></rss>