<?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[Our audiences are all ages: kids who just love the show, love the movie, grandparents bringing their grandkids, it really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our audiences are all ages: kids who just love the show, love the movie, grandparents bringing their grandkids, it really covers the spectrum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63357]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27000]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63584]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42949]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach: Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;  One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;   (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5063]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,  That starts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58786]]></link><description><![CDATA[What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,  That starts at once--bright pure--from Pity's mine,   Already polish'd by the hand divine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I Calculated, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38843]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Place saw My best days, My Happiest, My Wife having blessed me with Your Brother Woodhouse... I Calculated, to Live and died in Comfort, Our Business Was good of course We agreed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17644]]></link><description><![CDATA[God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241]]></link><description><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47222]]></link><description><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. - Beyond the Horizon, 1942.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember that a kite rises against - not with - the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember that a kite rises against - not with - the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Normally by this time of the day we have a clearer picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Normally by this time of the day we have a clearer picture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van,  The fittest place where man can die  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11177]]></link><description><![CDATA[But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van,  The fittest place where man can die   Is where he dies for man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29584]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's done can't be undone. [Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50669]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's done can't be undone. [Fr., Ce qui est faicr ne se peult desfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39006]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're going to see a rate increase at the end of March and another one at the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34758]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're going to see a rate increase at the end of March and another one at the end of May to bring us up to 5 percent. Then I think the Federal Reserve will step back for a while to smell the roses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42915]]></link><description><![CDATA[He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64379]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the hollow drum has beat to bed And the little fifer hangs his head,  When all is mute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43070]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the hollow drum has beat to bed And the little fifer hangs his head,  When all is mute the Moorish flute,   And nodding guards watch wearily,    On, then let me,     From prison free,      March out by moonlight cheerily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24250]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been nice to hold them to three or four and out in their territory and let our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28384]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been nice to hold them to three or four and out in their territory and let our offense take a knee. But this was a good test for our defense. I think we kind of needed that to get some confidence. I'm glad it ended up this way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,  That banish what they sue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,  That banish what they sue for: redeem thy brother   By yielding up thy body to my will,    Or else he must not only die the death,     But thy unkindess shall his death draw out      To ling'ring sufferance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows,  The timid, bashful violet   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows,  The timid, bashful violet   Or the royal-hearted rose:    The pansy in purple dress,     The pink with cheek of red,      Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs,       Like a bashful maid her head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel the overall market is showing a lot of life across the board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42575]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel the overall market is showing a lot of life across the board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true that the assertion of spiritual principle is vain because we can not see at the moment how to express that principle in action. It would assuredly make a difference if Christians, in their approach one to another, realized that, in spite of appearances, they were in fact one. If, in their seeking after external reunion, they realized that they were seeking not to create a unity which does not yet exist, but to find an expression for a unity which does exist, which is indeed the one elemental reality, they would approach one another in a better frame of mind. The common recognition of the principle would in itself be a unifying force of great value, and would dispose those who shared it to approach questions of difference in a spirit of unity which would immensely assist their deliberations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24179]]></link><description><![CDATA[And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62865]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exhibitors have really outdone themselves this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exhibitors have really outdone themselves this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -Albert Einstein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo -Diogenes Laertius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1336</guid></item></channel></rss>