<?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[It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must plough my furrow alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must plough my furrow alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel bad that I don't feel worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel bad that I don't feel worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28374]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64941]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906  Most Christians live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906  Most Christians live in confusion in regard to their scales of values and priorities. Many honest Christian people experience the shock of a revelation when they are brought to realize that their membership of the Church constitutes a loyalty prior to their loyalty to the nation to which they belong. Patriotism is one of the powerful underground pseudo-religions of to-day, not merely nationalism. The fundamental notion that the Christians are a "peculiar people" that never is identical, or even can be, with a people in the biological, national sense of the word, is largely asleep. It can only become awake by a new grasp of the biblical truth that the Church is the "people of God", an elect race composed of people out of all nations, transcending all nations and races.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We certainly understand parents' concerns, and we don't want to associate ourselves with promoting alcohol to youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32672]]></link><description><![CDATA[We certainly understand parents' concerns, and we don't want to associate ourselves with promoting alcohol to youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23215]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31476]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a structural problem in the rural economy and a structural problem in the urban economy, that's really the story. It's really coincidental that everything has gone bad at one time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shamrock came along at a great time for the Miami Dolphins. I was looking for another option for our players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shamrock came along at a great time for the Miami Dolphins. I was looking for another option for our players that was nicer than your typical extended stay, but not as expensive as a corporate apartment. Shamrock proved to be the best of both worlds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50275]]></link><description><![CDATA[In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up until now, the security situation across the country remains safe and under control. We will continue to stay fully alert for future threats to security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2553</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/2206]]></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/2206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1171]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not too much to appearances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not too much to appearances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42493]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every wish Is like a prayer--with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57032]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inch in missing is as bad as an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48975]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there chicken in chick peas? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there chicken in chick peas?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50269]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted real kids. I didn't want Hollywood kids doing weird accents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted real kids. I didn't want Hollywood kids doing weird accents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men -- bring them softness, teach them how to cry. -Joan Baez.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The No. 1 risk factor is year-round playing of a sport, ... It starts with minor injuries, and by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37040]]></link><description><![CDATA[The No. 1 risk factor is year-round playing of a sport, ... It starts with minor injuries, and by the time they are in high school, it turns up as a serious injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19849]]></link><description><![CDATA[His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud chest swells with hard muscles. [Lat., Ardua cervix,  Argumtumque caput, brevis alvos, obessaque terga,   Luxuriatque toris animosum pectus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in kind contribution and it's unfortunate that these members put the party ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30949]]></link><description><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in kind contribution and it's unfortunate that these members put the party in this situation,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20173]]></link><description><![CDATA["Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20173</guid></item></channel></rss>