<?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[Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10015]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26739]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She racked her brain for words scathing enough to convey her opinion of their actions. When nothing came to her, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/345]]></link><description><![CDATA[She racked her brain for words scathing enough to convey her opinion of their actions. When nothing came to her, she settled for the one unanswerable accusation. "Men!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems there are never enough [left-handed] desks. I have worked here for 30 years and the shortage of left-handed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30274]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems there are never enough [left-handed] desks. I have worked here for 30 years and the shortage of left-handed desks has not been a problem before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53024]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39421]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63225]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  God will not hold us responsible to understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57316]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/211]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've just got to think that your legs aren't tired and there's still a lot of game left to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38916]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've just got to think that your legs aren't tired and there's still a lot of game left to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet meat must have sour sauce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet meat must have sour sauce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43264]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay)  Before the sad accounting day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay)  Before the sad accounting day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakest goeth to the wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakest goeth to the wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And to hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast, and calm repose.  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61390]]></link><description><![CDATA[And to hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast, and calm repose.  . . . .   From toil we wins his spirits light,    From busy day the peaceful night;     Rich, from the very want of wealth,      In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21121]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. [Galatians 5:23, 24].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was tough, ... I didn't enjoy it all that much just because we struggled a lot as a team, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42590]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was tough, ... I didn't enjoy it all that much just because we struggled a lot as a team, but those years are gonna come here and there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself.  O that they knew, these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself.  O that they knew, these overdrest self-lovers,   What hides the body oft the mind discovers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27734]]></link><description><![CDATA[To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is worse than cannibalism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is worse than cannibalism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mutually giving and receiving aid, They set each other off, like light and shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mutually giving and receiving aid, They set each other off, like light and shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just don't really like each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28588]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just don't really like each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61965]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were times I didn't feel right not cheering for Seneca. They'd make a run and I'd feel the jolt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30543]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were times I didn't feel right not cheering for Seneca. They'd make a run and I'd feel the jolt, but I had to hold it back. It was really different. ... I'll do more cheering this weekend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear,  I do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear,  I do not know the man I should avoid   So soon as that spare Cassius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53116]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25589]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care too much about music. What I like is sounds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care too much about music. What I like is sounds]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51675]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured. [Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13760]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27023]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis is an individual sport. Because of that, you have to find your own answers in a match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis is an individual sport. Because of that, you have to find your own answers in a match.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28761]]></link><description><![CDATA[In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steve told us about the LCCC gig and wondered if we'd be interested, and we jumped at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steve told us about the LCCC gig and wondered if we'd be interested, and we jumped at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men are doing that but for competition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men are doing that but for competition in the workplace. These guys are competing along lines of status and power in a market economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42561</guid></item></channel></rss>