<?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[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10708]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,  And doubt is brother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12755]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the gods are dead-- Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,  And doubt is brother devil to Despair!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58341]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run!  Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun,   And there followed some droppings of rain:    But now the fair traveller's come to the west,     His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best;      He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest,       And foretells a bright rising again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.  ... Thomas à Kempis July 25, 2000 Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am really proud of the kids. We were not hitting the open shots tonight but we kept fighting and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am really proud of the kids. We were not hitting the open shots tonight but we kept fighting and still had a chance. We wanted to win it all and this is a really disappointing way to end the season but it is a great accomplishment to get as far as we did and I am really proud of the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49020]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foole may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If I mistake, He will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If I mistake, He will forgive me. I do not fear Him: I only fear lest, able to see and write these things, I should fail of witnessing and myself be, after all, a castaway -- no king but a talker: no disciple of Jesus, ready to go with Him to the death, but an arguer about the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a definite softening. Oil prices are starting to hit the middle-income consumer. It's a psychological thing. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a definite softening. Oil prices are starting to hit the middle-income consumer. It's a psychological thing. They read about it every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People see a half-mile of clean road and think they can drive 75, and that's just not the case. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31267]]></link><description><![CDATA[People see a half-mile of clean road and think they can drive 75, and that's just not the case. They need to slow down and be careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13163]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He without fear is king of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44206]]></link><description><![CDATA[He without fear is king of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory--death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory--death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4024]]></link><description><![CDATA[...A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21110]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men forget everything; women remember everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men forget everything; women remember everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives us the very quintessence of perception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46059]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives us the very quintessence of perception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3606]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2069]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22137]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11551]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody said it wasn't going to snow, and I kept telling everybody, 'Hey, I think it's going to snow'. Winter's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody said it wasn't going to snow, and I kept telling everybody, 'Hey, I think it's going to snow'. Winter's not over yet. Everybody's like, 'Oh! Take my studded tires off!' And I'm like, 'I wouldn't take studded tires off quite yet,' and here it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely nice. It's kind of like home-court advantage because I played here two years in high school and then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely nice. It's kind of like home-court advantage because I played here two years in high school and then a bunch of times in college. I'm real familiar with the gym and the baskets have nice shooting rims. I'm glad we're back in Denver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast, Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast, Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're talking about twenty-something years of professional ball. You have seen every defence you can possibly see. Every type of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're talking about twenty-something years of professional ball. You have seen every defence you can possibly see. Every type of athlete, every type of blitz, every type of coverage. You've seen everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What America needs is more young people who will carry to their jobs the same enthusiasm for getting ahead that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5970]]></link><description><![CDATA[What America needs is more young people who will carry to their jobs the same enthusiasm for getting ahead that they display in traffic. -M.A. Kelly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,  And live a coward in thine own esteem, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,  And live a coward in thine own esteem,   Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'    Like the poor cat i' th' adage?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10502</guid></item></channel></rss>