<?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[We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13694]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53755]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My master's visualizations were so powerfultheir condensation into matter was mere signature.Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Pathabout his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/386]]></link><description><![CDATA[My master's visualizations were so powerfultheir condensation into matter was mere signature.Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Pathabout his guru Yogananda.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked at the end of last year and I told him he had the talent. He was our catalyst ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked at the end of last year and I told him he had the talent. He was our catalyst and deserved it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grant, although he had much wit, H' was very shy of using it,  As being loth to wear it out,   And therefore bore it not about;    Unless on holy days or so,     As men their best apparel do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pullit out and strike it, merely to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pullit out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  But upon a day the good providence of God did cast me to Bedford to work on my calling, and in one of the streets of that town I came where there were three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun and talking about the things of God; and being now willing to hear them discourse, I drew near to hear what they said, for I was now a brisk talker also myself in the matters of religion. But now I may say I heard, but I understood not; for they were far above, out of my reach; for their talk was about a new birth -- the work of God on their hearts. And methought they spake as if Joy did make them speak; they spake with such pleasantness of scripture language and with such appearance of grace in all they said, that they were to me as if they had found a new world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds-- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds-- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives 'er all she needs;  But, oh, the little cargo-boats, that sail the wet seas roun',   They're just the same as you an' me, a'-plyin' up an' down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27104]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a tear in my eye because you know - I know how much he would have loved to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a tear in my eye because you know - I know how much he would have loved to have been here to see us get to the World Cup,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People counters at the Community Center recorded one million that came through the doors last fiscal year; obviously, not all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31106]]></link><description><![CDATA[People counters at the Community Center recorded one million that came through the doors last fiscal year; obviously, not all of them were different. There were 650,000 the year before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 O for a closer walk with God,  A calm and heavenly frame, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 O for a closer walk with God,  A calm and heavenly frame, A light to shine upon the road  That leads me to the Lamb Return, O holy Dove, return,  Sweet messenger of rest! I hate the sins that made Thee mourn  And drove Thee from my breast The dearest idol I have known,  Whate'er that idol be, Help me to tear it from Thy throne,  And worship only Thee. So shall my walk be close with God,  Calm and serene my frame; So purer light shall mark the road  That leads me to the Lamb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They continue to say the city is teetering on the brink of financial disaster. Quite frankly it?s inappropriate, because we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29476]]></link><description><![CDATA[They continue to say the city is teetering on the brink of financial disaster. Quite frankly it?s inappropriate, because we are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defensive motto is ? get in it and don't get out of it. When (the other team gets) uncomfortable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defensive motto is ? get in it and don't get out of it. When (the other team gets) uncomfortable like that, it's very hard and it creates offense for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27205]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more useful than silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more useful than silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleepingis a waste of dreaming, and dreaming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleepingis a waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the moredreams you have, the better chance of one coming true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;  Whom neither hopes deceive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;  Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,   But lives at peace, within himself content;    In thought, or act, accountable to none     But to himself, and to the gods alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did a nice job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did a nice job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In death a hero, as in life a friend!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11266]]></link><description><![CDATA[In death a hero, as in life a friend!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49088]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were a great rebounding team last year so teams are really making it a point to attack the boards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35772]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were a great rebounding team last year so teams are really making it a point to attack the boards on us, ... As guards, we're going to have to do a better job of boxing our man out and then getting back there and helping out. That's how we can get out running and get into our offense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always too early to quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always too early to quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round.  Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round.  Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high--   Fill all the Glasses there; for why    Should every Creature Drink but I?     Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like  Cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54509]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like  Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly;   Then rose again and bowed her to the people;    When by the Archbishop of Canterbury     She had all the royal makings of a queen,      As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,       The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems        Laid nobly on her; which performed, the choir         With all the choicest music of the kingdom          Together sung 'Te Deum.' So she parted           And with the same full state packed back again            To York Place, where the feast is held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11790</guid></item></channel></rss>