<?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[This was a second independence for us, and one that was made by the Lebanese people. It can only mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34382]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a second independence for us, and one that was made by the Lebanese people. It can only mean that accountability and democracy will advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An elephant wasn't sitting on my chest, so I couldn't be having a heart attack. I'm very glad to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31087]]></link><description><![CDATA[An elephant wasn't sitting on my chest, so I couldn't be having a heart attack. I'm very glad to be here today, because a couple years ago it wasn't a sure thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66188]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.   - Frances R. Havergal, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.   - Frances R. Havergal,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be absolutely a mistake to think that you can just eat what you want and you're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be absolutely a mistake to think that you can just eat what you want and you're going to be OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60610]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699]]></link><description><![CDATA[The massive gates of circumstance Are turned upon the smallest hinge,  And thus some seeming pettiest chance   Oft gives our life its after-tinge.    The trifles of our daily lives,     The common things, scarce worth recall,      Whereof no visible trace survives,       These are the mainsprings after all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28068]]></link><description><![CDATA[To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building is a sweet impoverishing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Building is a sweet impoverishing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jason just bulldozed people. Jon's able to use his hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jason just bulldozed people. Jon's able to use his hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51163]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3482]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11894]]></link><description><![CDATA[... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the symbol of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the symbol of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52361]]></link><description><![CDATA[You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think everybody knows, at least everybody who is on the bubble, so to speak. All you can do is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think everybody knows, at least everybody who is on the bubble, so to speak. All you can do is do everything you possibly can every time you get a chance to make it a hard decision for them. When you get the opportunity, you just want to give them reasons to keep you around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have very little fat on them and this was in October, at the time of year when we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42171]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have very little fat on them and this was in October, at the time of year when we would expect them to be almost at their maximum weight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who claim to always be right,are always wrong about atleast one thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who claim to always be right,are always wrong about atleast one thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When that one went out, the wheels kind of fell off. We knew what we were up against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When that one went out, the wheels kind of fell off. We knew what we were up against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no basis for any rumors that Steve Case is leaving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34292]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no basis for any rumors that Steve Case is leaving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a Christmas tree .. the perfect giftfor a guy... the plant is already dead(monologue Dec 10 2003). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20094]]></link><description><![CDATA[a Christmas tree .. the perfect giftfor a guy... the plant is already dead(monologue Dec 10 2003).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was huge for us, beating them in their gym after they've beaten us the last couple of years. They're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38129]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was huge for us, beating them in their gym after they've beaten us the last couple of years. They're a really good team, we just got some big rebounds when we needed them and played good defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraq, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, is not considered as a threat to its neighbors and the entire region. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iraq, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, is not considered as a threat to its neighbors and the entire region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospital rooms seemt to have vastly more ceiling than any rooms people live in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hospital rooms seemt to have vastly more ceiling than any rooms people live in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he won't be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who's always telling you that, of course, he's nobody. Probably all you'll think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him. If you do dislike him, it will be because you feel a bit envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He won't be thinking about himself at all. There I must stop. If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you're not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The current earnings and the forward-looking guidance, in general, have not met expectations among a lot of companies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The current earnings and the forward-looking guidance, in general, have not met expectations among a lot of companies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,  And calculating profits--so much help   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book,  And calculating profits--so much help   By so much reading. It is rather when    We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge     Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound,      Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth--       'Tis then we get the right good from a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For that can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47944]]></link><description><![CDATA[For that can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two wrongs will never make a right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two wrongs will never make a right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1635]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the second game in a row we came out turning the ball over. The pressure is probably what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29629]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the second game in a row we came out turning the ball over. The pressure is probably what caused it. When you get in a game like this, you can't turn the ball over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46533]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46533</guid></item></channel></rss>