<?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[Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any excuse will serve a tyrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   A united confession of the Name, a united worship of the Father, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   A united confession of the Name, a united worship of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit -- such a Confession, such a Worship, as the past contains only a dim shadow of -- we have a right to look for. It may come when we least expect it; it will probably come after a period of darkness, fierce contention, utter disbelief. But the confession will only be united when we cease to confound our feeble expressions of trust and affiance, our praises and adorations, with Him to whom they rise, from whom they proceed; when we are brought to nothingness, that He may be shown to be all in all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy that I could cope with the wind and win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17300]]></link><description><![CDATA[As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next World War will be fought with stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next World War will be fought with stones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.  ... A. C. McGiffert, A History of Christian Thought  August 21, 2000   At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66380]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a solution people are wanting to buy into. The main objection is to using public funds for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33245]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a solution people are wanting to buy into. The main objection is to using public funds for private institutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitiveness has been a big thing for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8977]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hire people who want to make the best things in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63979]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm disappointed with the results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm disappointed with the results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50550]]></link><description><![CDATA[He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May your glass be ever full May the roof over your head be always strong,  And may you be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59402]]></link><description><![CDATA[May your glass be ever full May the roof over your head be always strong,  And may you be in heaven   Half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, youhave to take care of them! There is great freedom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, youhave to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living.It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a serial entrepreneur. Somebody stop him before he makes a killing again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23027]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a serial entrepreneur. Somebody stop him before he makes a killing again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50176]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry stomach rarely despises rough food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [the war in Vietnam] poisons everything. It has disrupted the economy, envenomed our politics, hurt the alliance, divided our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [the war in Vietnam] poisons everything. It has disrupted the economy, envenomed our politics, hurt the alliance, divided our people, and now it is interfering with this critical question of the arms race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He could eat, especially if it was Jack-in the Box. He really loved the big ultimate cheeseburgers and could easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He could eat, especially if it was Jack-in the Box. He really loved the big ultimate cheeseburgers and could easily eat three.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is properly no history; only biography ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4215]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is properly no history; only biography]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27633]]></link><description><![CDATA[[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[North American manufacturers have really focused on product, launching a wide variety of new and exciting model offerings. In the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30632]]></link><description><![CDATA[North American manufacturers have really focused on product, launching a wide variety of new and exciting model offerings. In the end the consumer wins, in terms of choice, product quality and affordability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music, not only across genres ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35217]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music, not only across genres but across generations as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities are there for only a second but you got to see it, just like a shooting star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities are there for only a second but you got to see it, just like a shooting star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19486]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew,  And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26722]]></link><description><![CDATA[In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew,  And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,   And ran dismayed away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49519]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53223]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge of a jest when you have done laughing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up  As chance will have it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15292]]></link><description><![CDATA[We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up  As chance will have it, on the rock or sand:   For Thought is tired of wandering o'er the world,    And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15292</guid></item></channel></rss>