<?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[We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - The Writings of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22143]]></link><description><![CDATA[We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - The Writings of Madame Swetchine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you doubt, abstain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you doubt, abstain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends forsake us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends forsake us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61378]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57096]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,  And golden locks in breezy play,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,  And golden locks in breezy play,   Half teasing and half tender, to repeat    Her song of "May."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate,  Who dies as firm as Sparta's king, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18251]]></link><description><![CDATA[So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate,  Who dies as firm as Sparta's king,   Because his soul was great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64389</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[Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, for as you dream you shall become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2215]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5795]]></link><description><![CDATA[If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not easy playing the new ball on it because it moves a lot off the wicket. That will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not easy playing the new ball on it because it moves a lot off the wicket. That will be for both teams in the second innings also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6014]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The feller that calls you "brother" generally wants something that don't belong to him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The feller that calls you "brother" generally wants something that don't belong to him]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind,but marriage is an eye opener. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind,but marriage is an eye opener.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. - "A Word to the Wizards".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful when!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get caught up in defending him, pick your poison. There are more players on that team than just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36193]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get caught up in defending him, pick your poison. There are more players on that team than just Sean Morris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51154]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49314]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19569]]></link><description><![CDATA[To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has never been so bad, that it couldn't be worse... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43241]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has never been so bad, that it couldn't be worse...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few games after Peter Laviolette became the coach, I began to get more ice time, ... Pretty soon, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few games after Peter Laviolette became the coach, I began to get more ice time, ... Pretty soon, I was skating 25-30 minutes a night. I was more than happy to keep doing that. It sure makes a difference when you have the coach's confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54666]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10378]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34498]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were a lot of strong riders there in the top six, but the track's a little slippery, a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36299]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were a lot of strong riders there in the top six, but the track's a little slippery, a little softer than I thought. So I had a hard time getting up to speed there, misjudged the sprint and, you know, got second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  In the whole range of history there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday  Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  In the whole range of history there is no more striking contrast than that of the Apostolic churches with the heathenism around them. They had shortcomings enough, it is true, and divisions and scandals not a few, for even apostolic times were no golden age of purity and primitive simplicity. Yet we can see that their fullness of life, and hope, and promise for the future, were a new sort of power in the world. Within their own limits they had solved almost by the way the social problem which baffled Rome, and baffles Europe still. They had lifted woman to her rightful place, restored the dignity of labour, abolished beggary, and drawn the sting of slavery. The secret of the revolution is that the selfishness of race and class were forgotten in the Supper of the Lord, and a new basis for society found in love of the visible image of God in men for whom Christ died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46688]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is happy for you that possess the talent of pleasing with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indifference is the invisible giant of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17395</guid></item></channel></rss>