<?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 is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The organization is great, I liked the sailing centre but the race conditions were very difficult. I am very happy that I could cope with the wind and win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The third floor is a total loss. We're worried about the structural integrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The third floor is a total loss. We're worried about the structural integrity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,  Christ-like is it for sin to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,  Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,   God-like is it all sin to leave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of shopkeepers--(Nation Boutiquiere). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of shopkeepers--(Nation Boutiquiere).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be spaces in your togetherness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be spaces in your togetherness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resist no temptation: a guilty conscience is more honorable than regret]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willie is a veteran player who upgrades the depth of our defensive corps. He plays a solid defensive game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willie is a veteran player who upgrades the depth of our defensive corps. He plays a solid defensive game and will be a good fit for our hockey club as we prepare for the 2006 playoffs and a chance to compete for the Stanley Cup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His fatherhood. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, "Thou art my refuge, because Thou art my home". Such a faith will not lead to presumption. The man who can pray such a prayer will know better than another that God is not mocked; that He is not a man that He should repent; that tears and entreaties will not work on Him to the breach of one of His laws; that for God to give a man, because he asked for it, that which was not in harmony with His laws of truth and right, would be to damn him -- to cast him into the outer darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign whoever may,   And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60263]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, is the unkindness of my dear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder..Sometimes it was the falling rain. Always it burst our hearts asunderand made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Martin Sometimes your voice was the thunder..Sometimes it was the falling rain. Always it burst our hearts asunderand made them vibrate.. empathic in pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perish those who said our good things before we did. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perish those who said our good things before we did. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  Tell God all that is in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one's heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell Him your troubles, that He may comfort you; tell Him your joys, that He may sober them; tell Him your longings, that He may purify them; tell Him your dislikes, that He may help you conquer them; talk to Him of your temptations, that He may shield you from them: show Him the wounds of your heart, that He may heal them; lay bare your indifference to good, your depraved tastes for evil, your instability. Tell Him how self-love makes you unjust to others, how vanity tempts you to be insincere, how pride disguises you to yourself and others.  If you thus pour out all your weaknesses, needs, troubles, there will be no lack of what to say. You will never exhaust the subject. It is continually being renewed. People who have no secrets from each other never want for subjects of conversation. They do not weigh their words, for there is nothing to be held back; neither do they seek for something to say. They talk out of the abundance of the heart, without consideration they say just what they think. Blessed are they who attain to such familiar, unreserved intercourse with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1248]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, there are political complications in Haiti, too, ... But when people are basically unhappy because they don't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, there are political complications in Haiti, too, ... But when people are basically unhappy because they don't have a good way of life, they don't have a job, it's often related to too many people and too few opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54256]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that goest farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that goest farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.  . . . .   It's full of worth and goodness too, with manly kindness blent,    It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentlemen of the Jury: The one, absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentlemen of the Jury: The one, absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.   - George Graham Vest, Eulogy on the Dog,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44089]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9421]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I mean, when you've got guys like Ken Griffey Jr. in our stadium, in our locker room, I've got to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35174]]></link><description><![CDATA[I mean, when you've got guys like Ken Griffey Jr. in our stadium, in our locker room, I've got to talk to them. I'm just seizing the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28128]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it sags like a heavy load. Or does it just explode?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29729]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans -- you know the answer before I say it -- that's not good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19074]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have been doing is turning around and donating them (donations) to the various donation sites set up around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40575]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have been doing is turning around and donating them (donations) to the various donation sites set up around town for other hurricane evacuees. From what I understand, even more people are showing up here from that area,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child of those tears. [Lat., Filius istarum lacrymarum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58782]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child of those tears. [Lat., Filius istarum lacrymarum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46421]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18845]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was perfect tennis weather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38654]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was perfect tennis weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family and country such as the individual, honor and religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't surprised, we got a good football team. Our kids made up their mind what they wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you about to write is finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19950]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has humanity, forewarned,   Will turn aside and let the reptile live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5323]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64637</guid></item></channel></rss>