<?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[Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63692]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects, ... Try to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to keep order and security so that there will not be any negative side effects, ... Try to be polite ... and avoid scuffles as befits a revolutionary Iranian Muslim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to take advantage of our mismatches. We felt Darnell had not been getting the ball enough lately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35465]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to take advantage of our mismatches. We felt Darnell had not been getting the ball enough lately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15342]]></link><description><![CDATA[As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17346]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait;  O Shepherdess of England's fold,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait;  O Shepherdess of England's fold,   Behold this gate of pearl and gold!   - William Blake,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't that we don't want to comply, but the sheriffs are saying they don't have the resources or ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't that we don't want to comply, but the sheriffs are saying they don't have the resources or ability to do it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one fastens where there is gaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one fastens where there is gaine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13322]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kelvin knew nothing about ground [fighting], and that's why he lost. His striking is good and as a fighter, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kelvin knew nothing about ground [fighting], and that's why he lost. His striking is good and as a fighter, he can only become better. He's only going to get better, and this will be a very big experience for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to treat people as if they have nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28638]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to treat people as if they have nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885    After saying our prayers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885    After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57655]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17221]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. About 3 weeks later he gets a bill from the police department and a photo of his truck running that light. So, like the smart/dumbass he is, he gets cute, lays out some money on the bed(the price of the ticket), takes a photo of it, and sends it in. So a few weeks pass and he gets another letter, this one has a photo of handcuffs. He promptly paid the bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bad day. Horrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bad day. Horrible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness: When on my day of life the night is falling,   And, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness: When on my day of life the night is falling,   And, in the winds from unsunned spaces blown, I hear far voices out of darkness calling   My feet to paths unknown, Thou who hast made my home of life so pleasant   Leave not its tenant when its walls decay; O Love Divine, O Helper ever-present,   Be Thou my strength and stay! Be near me when all else is from me drifting;   Earth, sky, home's pictures, days of shade and shine, And kindly faces to my own uplifting   The love that answers mine. I have but Thee, my Father! let Thy spirit   Be with me then to comfort and uphold; No gate of pearl, no branch of palm I merit,   Nor street of shining gold. Suffice it if -- my good and ill unreckoned,   And both forgiven through Thy abounding grace - I find myself by hands familiar beckoned   Unto my fitting place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796   Gather my broken fragments to a whole, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796   Gather my broken fragments to a whole, As these four quarters make a shining day. Into thy basket, for my golden bowl, Take up the things that I have cast away In vice or indolence or unwise play. Let mine be a merry, all-receiving heart, But make it a whole, with light in every part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16499]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is harmful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is harmful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They weren't just people paying to see a show. They were part of it. There was such a euphoric feeling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40851]]></link><description><![CDATA[They weren't just people paying to see a show. They were part of it. There was such a euphoric feeling in that arena.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This isn't only a boon for the county, it also now offers protection for those people who partake in gambling, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32390]]></link><description><![CDATA[This isn't only a boon for the county, it also now offers protection for those people who partake in gambling, whether it's regulated or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15704]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55568]]></link><description><![CDATA[For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lends, gives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49372]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lends, gives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8975]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your prices have historically been the low prices in the state. It's painful sometimes when it changes that much, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your prices have historically been the low prices in the state. It's painful sometimes when it changes that much, but you've enjoyed the best prices for about a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12394]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58535]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50994]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a compound creature, half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62688]]></link><description><![CDATA[HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was, therefore, only one quarter eagle, which is $2.50 in gold. Zoology is full of surprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the streets, on the roads, and in the markets, instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously arranged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44239]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44239</guid></item></channel></rss>