<?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[Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46370]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real malady is fear of life, not of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real malady is fear of life, not of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is written by the victors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19304]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is written by the victors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take what you can use and let the rest go by ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take what you can use and let the rest go by]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27316]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,  And earth's base built on stubble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,  And earth's base built on stubble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love;  The ivy climbs the laurel   To clasp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23107]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love;  The ivy climbs the laurel   To clasp the boughs above.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am responsible only to God and history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am responsible only to God and history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;  Pick out of tales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57918]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;  Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality, with all its difficulties, opportunities, and implications. The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a matter of safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours - what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/965]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours - what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of power and wisdom. Merry Browne -Marjorie Holmes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has no religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53440]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has no religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8175]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pressure is growing inside the system to contain him and to pass these four years as quickly as possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pressure is growing inside the system to contain him and to pass these four years as quickly as possible without too much damage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true Amphitryon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true Amphitryon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the winning spirit on the inside because we were brought up as winners. Some of these athletes that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33376]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the winning spirit on the inside because we were brought up as winners. Some of these athletes that you get now just want to play. It has to be taught and instilled in them. That's basically what we had to do with this group. They're just now getting the concept of what it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire  In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16098]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire  In killing a Pike; but the forked stick,   With a slit and a bladder,--and that other fine trick,    Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck,--     Will kill two for one, if you have any luck;      The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile,       To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile;        When a Pike suns himselfe and a-frogging doth go,         The two-inched hook is better, I know,          Than the ord'nary snaring: but still I must cry,           When the Pike is at home, minde the cookery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49815]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21148]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52496]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32633]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the NBA scheduling, a lot of times it puts the onus on teams traveling. You play Utah one night and a team like Phoenix is resting and waiting for you the next night. That's tough. So you run into some circumstances like that more, it seems, on the road than you do at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance dreams are cruses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death! [Fr., On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24840]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death! [Fr., On entre, on crie,  Et c'est la vie!   On baille, on sort,    Et c'est la mort!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an ill councell that hath no escape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ,  And seem a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51508]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stol'n out of holy writ,  And seem a saint when most I play the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way;  But left me none the wiser,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way;  But left me none the wiser,   For all she had to say.    I walked a mile with Sorrow     And ne'er a word said she;      But, oh, the things I learned from her       When Sorrow walked with me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have reached an agreement in principle for the creation of a joint company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35714]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have reached an agreement in principle for the creation of a joint company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind makes living contradictory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind makes living contradictory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54963</guid></item></channel></rss>