<?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[People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1259]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[18 straight whiskies - I think that's a record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24150]]></link><description><![CDATA[18 straight whiskies - I think that's a record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crisis offers you extra desired power]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42273]]></link><description><![CDATA[His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every crime destroys more Edens than our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42313]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At some glad moment was it nature's choice To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60939]]></link><description><![CDATA[At some glad moment was it nature's choice To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5302]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example, was initially approved only for epilepsy. But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41454]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Many drugs are prescribed outside their official recommendations, she says. Neurontin, for example, was initially approved only for epilepsy. But, after a slow start, it grew to become a $US2.3 billion ($3 billion today) blockbuster for its owner, Pfizer, in 2003.] About 80 per cent of the prescriptions were for unapproved uses - conditions like bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, restless legs syndrome, hot flashes, migraines and tension headaches, ... In fact, Neurontin has become a sort of all-purpose restorative for chronic discomfort of almost any type - yet there is almost no good published evidence that it works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   Visit, I beseech thee, O Lord, this habitation with thy mercy, and me with thy grace and salvation. Let thy holy angels pitch their tents round about and dwell here, that no illusion of the night may abuse me, the spirits of darkness may not come near to hurt me, no evil or sad accident oppress me; and let the eternal Spirit of the Father dwell in my soul and body, filling every corner of my heart with light and grace. Let no deed of darkness overtake me; and let thy blessing, most blessed God, be upon me for ever, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not adults. They're kids. There's a lot of reasons why Connecticut shouldn't be so far behind the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28203]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not adults. They're kids. There's a lot of reasons why Connecticut shouldn't be so far behind the rest of the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59148]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  God will not hold us responsible to understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no true orator who is not a hero. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45232]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no true orator who is not a hero.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play,  And wild and sweet   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play,  And wild and sweet   The words repeat    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20820]]></link><description><![CDATA[A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22864]]></link><description><![CDATA[In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19014]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13655]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51838]]></link><description><![CDATA[We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21044]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43810]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2439]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19790]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31017]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20666]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No vice can harbor in you, no infirmity take any root, no good desire can languish, when once your heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7074]]></link><description><![CDATA[No vice can harbor in you, no infirmity take any root, no good desire can languish, when once your heart is in this method of prayer; never beginning to pray, till you first see how matters stand with you; asking your heart what it wants, and having nothing in your prayers, but what the known state of your heart puts you upon demanding, saying, or offering, unto God. A quarter of an hour of this prayer, brings you out of your closet a new man; your heart feels the good of it; and every return of such a prayer, gives new life and growth to all your virtues, with more certainty, than the dew refreshes the herbs of the field: whereas, overlooking this true prayer of your own heart, and only at certain times taking a prayer that you find in a book, you have nothing to wonder at, if you are every day praying, and yet every day sinking further and further under all your infirmities. [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is logic on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is logic on fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;  Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;  Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can,   Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no question there were challenges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no question there were challenges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38644</guid></item></channel></rss>