<?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[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34952]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461   How wonderful it is -- is it not? -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461   How wonderful it is -- is it not? -- that literally only Christianity has taught us the true place and function of suffering. The Stoics tried the hopeless little game of denying its objective reality, or of declaring it a good in itself (which it never is); and the Pessimists attempted to revel in it, as a food to their melancholy, and as something that can no more be transformed than it can be avoided or explained. But Christ came, and He did not really explain it; He did far more: He met it, willed it, transformed it; and He taught us to do all this -- or, rather, He Himself does it within us, if we do not hinder the all-healing hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit;  Spes jubet esse ratas; in praelia trudit inermem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12905]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This deal marks the first of many to come and illustrates how, by working together with producers, we will achieve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42494]]></link><description><![CDATA[This deal marks the first of many to come and illustrates how, by working together with producers, we will achieve agreements that are mutually beneficial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4315]]></link><description><![CDATA[For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present is a point just passed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present is a point just passed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to disciplineourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21829]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to disciplineourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,  If I have done amiss, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53810]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,  If I have done amiss, impute it not!   The best may err, but you are good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is for our sympathies, for the manner in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58514]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is for our sympathies, for the manner in which we regard it, and for the tone in which we discuss it. What shall we say, then, with regard to it? On which side shall we stand?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then we started going once a month to Pennsylvania and would practice reading commercials and on the runway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then we started going once a month to Pennsylvania and would practice reading commercials and on the runway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep  Moans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep  Moans round with many voices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew this was a young team coming in and there was a lot of butterflies and jitters before the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38259]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew this was a young team coming in and there was a lot of butterflies and jitters before the game. One game does not make a season and we will bounce back and get ready to play Bronson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Injustice never rules forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Injustice never rules forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9281]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is more precious than a piece of land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is more precious than a piece of land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It’s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21882]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a great time on the floor, though we had a few bobbles. We were so relaxed. By that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42385]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a great time on the floor, though we had a few bobbles. We were so relaxed. By that time, we knew we had it won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[heat from impending searches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38669]]></link><description><![CDATA[heat from impending searches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27588]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of God in peoples' lives allows a little outside organization in their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32693]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of God in peoples' lives allows a little outside organization in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. 'Hear that?' you say, 'That's dynamite, baby.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's dirty, he's dirty, he's dirty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40969]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's dirty, he's dirty, he's dirty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19860]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12973]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15521]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23019]]></link><description><![CDATA[An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58674]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50866]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64162]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57519</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[Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant dripping hollows out a stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant dripping hollows out a stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious talk. He was interested only in those emotions and professions which could get themselves translated into character and action. Words have always been the bane of religion as well as its vehicle. Religious emotion has enormous motive force, but it is the easiest thing in the world for it to sizzle away in high professions and wordy prayers. In that case, it is a substitute and counterfeit, and a damage to the Reign of God among men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till then, good-night! You wish the time were now? And I.  You do not blush to wish it so? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till then, good-night! You wish the time were now? And I.  You do not blush to wish it so?   You would have blush'd yourself to death    To own so much a year ago.     What! both these snowy hands? ah, then      I'll have to say, Good-night again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60633]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60633</guid></item></channel></rss>