<?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[Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11404]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale. These types of stories just stir up issues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34172]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale. These types of stories just stir up issues that don't exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52088]]></link><description><![CDATA[The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26032]]></link><description><![CDATA[People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just got so conditioned over the last few years to getting multiple offers so quickly that we forgot what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36938]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just got so conditioned over the last few years to getting multiple offers so quickly that we forgot what a realistic market is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday, I didn't let it get to me, ... I've shot enough bad rounds and I know everyone is going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I didn't let it get to me, ... I've shot enough bad rounds and I know everyone is going to make bogeys in tough conditions. When you want to throw in the towel, you've got to remember that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17576]]></link><description><![CDATA[While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1907]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54474]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simon will undergo treatment and we'll review the situation ahead of Sunday's game in Sydney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simon will undergo treatment and we'll review the situation ahead of Sunday's game in Sydney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55556]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest  That best becomes the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest  That best becomes the table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12253]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the only sure bait when you are fishing for praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46052]]></link><description><![CDATA[When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter;  Oh no! the miserablest day we live   There's many a better thing to do than die!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    This is true Christian resignation to God, which requires no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist    This is true Christian resignation to God, which requires no more to the support of it than such a plain assurance of the goodness of God as Abraham had of His veracity. And if you ask yourself what greater reason Abraham had to depend upon the Divine veracity than you have to depend upon the Divine goodness, you will find that none can be given.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't think it, ink it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't think it, ink it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18247]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  To take up the cross of Christ is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slackers aren't stupid, they are just too lazy to do anything about their situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slackers aren't stupid, they are just too lazy to do anything about their situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4067]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were down 16-7 late in the first quarter, and we scored the next 17 points. We were able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were down 16-7 late in the first quarter, and we scored the next 17 points. We were able to put them in some tough spots and capitalize on their mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew what we had to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37367]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew what we had to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events. [Lat., Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16417]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I will trace the footsteps of the chief events. [Lat., Sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to play an upbeat style with skill and energy. I think hockey needs to be fun for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to play an upbeat style with skill and energy. I think hockey needs to be fun for the players. You want to create an environment that allows that to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll get a check, ... But it might be six cents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35066]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll get a check, ... But it might be six cents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35066</guid></item></channel></rss>