<?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[Who doesn't want to win, especially at home, with family here and an opportunity to enjoy it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doesn't want to win, especially at home, with family here and an opportunity to enjoy it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are entirely satisfied that Stephen's parachute was deliberately tampered with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32060]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are entirely satisfied that Stephen's parachute was deliberately tampered with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Barnabas the Apostle Let songs of praises fill the sky!  Christ, our ascended Lord, Sends down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Barnabas the Apostle Let songs of praises fill the sky!  Christ, our ascended Lord, Sends down his Spirit from on high,  According to his word. The Spirit by his heavenly breath,  New life creates within: He quickens sinners from the death  Of trespasses and sin. The things of Christ the Spirit takes,  And shows them unto men; The fallen soul his temple makes,  God's image stamps again Come, Holy Spirit, from above,  With thy celestial fire: Come, and with flames of zeal and love  Our hearts and tongues inspire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62619]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to resumption is to resume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to resumption is to resume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam  Posse volunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been coming down here to East Texas and this alumni function for the last nine years now. Each year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30337]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been coming down here to East Texas and this alumni function for the last nine years now. Each year this crowd has gotten bigger and better. I think there's 100-150 people in there tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone:  Violets plucked the sweetest rain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone:  Violets plucked the sweetest rain   Makes not fresh nor grow again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. [It., Sta come torre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock. [It., Sta come torre ferme, che non crolla  Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath me flows the Rhine, and, like the stream of Time, it flows amid the ruins of the Past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath me flows the Rhine, and, like the stream of Time, it flows amid the ruins of the Past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27597]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think that's necessarily true. I feel the same way about exotic dancers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think that's necessarily true. I feel the same way about exotic dancers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The employment picture remains fairly grim, and that's having a dampening effect on measures of consumer confidence. And we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The employment picture remains fairly grim, and that's having a dampening effect on measures of consumer confidence. And we have higher energy prices, which is another drag on consumer confidence and a 'tax' on consumer spending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still!  But they have left an aching void  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26933]]></link><description><![CDATA[What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still!  But they have left an aching void   The world can never fill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buyer needes a hundred eyes, the seller not one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a two-second call. There was no extended conversation. I don't understand the need to tell an untruth when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35631]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a two-second call. There was no extended conversation. I don't understand the need to tell an untruth when you have already lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step toward repairing our loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step toward repairing our loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. [Fr., La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l'eloge ment apres leur mort.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,  Where it draws ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26715]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bought an unction of a mountebank, So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,  Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare,   Collected from all simples that have virtue    Under the moon, can save the thing from death     That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point      With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,       It may be death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is not an exact science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is not an exact science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm half Swedish and I don't like lutefisk, ... I had it as a kid Swedish lutefisk. I didn't like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm half Swedish and I don't like lutefisk, ... I had it as a kid Swedish lutefisk. I didn't like it then and I don't like it now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11923]]></link><description><![CDATA[No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46979]]></link><description><![CDATA[We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16490]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he got older, he became stronger and his speed improved. He also grew defensively. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33967]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he got older, he became stronger and his speed improved. He also grew defensively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and they obeyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5214]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60289]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That three-point play, you could tell the excitement in the girls. That was definitely the turning point in the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41778]]></link><description><![CDATA[That three-point play, you could tell the excitement in the girls. That was definitely the turning point in the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely nice to get in. I knew it would be a challenge against that team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely nice to get in. I knew it would be a challenge against that team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother understands what a child does not say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persuasion is better than force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persuasion is better than force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born king."  Peace on earth, and mercy mild,   God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8652]]></link><description><![CDATA["Hark the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born king."  Peace on earth, and mercy mild,   God and sinners reconciled.!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8652</guid></item></channel></rss>