<?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[Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50838]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at alot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47581]]></link><description><![CDATA[This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at alot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55170]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36450]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the gods love jokes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the gods love jokes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money doesn't sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money doesn't sleep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the way free speech doesn't apply at work. You can't just walk into your boss' office and say 'you're a fuckface and I'm gonna go back to work now.' No, you're not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did what was best for the horse, not what other people thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36313]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did what was best for the horse, not what other people thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28300]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He pushed them... And they flew. -Peter McWilliams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21923]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She can do things that no one in our district can do. She's got a quick first step, and is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40165]]></link><description><![CDATA[She can do things that no one in our district can do. She's got a quick first step, and is an incredible athlete. I'm honored to have the opportunity to coach her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29112]]></link><description><![CDATA[We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jennifer is an outstanding talent and has been part of a championship volleyball teams throughout her career. Her talent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jennifer is an outstanding talent and has been part of a championship volleyball teams throughout her career. Her talent and winning experience will have an immediate impact for our program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65419]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O world as God has made it! All is beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62206]]></link><description><![CDATA[O world as God has made it! All is beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11219]]></link><description><![CDATA[A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing and wisdom another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29766]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miseries of which I was an eye witness and in which I took a chief part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40662]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down aninvitation to dinner without giving an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down aninvitation to dinner without giving an excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All summer she scattered the daisy leaves; They only mocked her as they fell.  She said: "The daisy but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10992]]></link><description><![CDATA[All summer she scattered the daisy leaves; They only mocked her as they fell.  She said: "The daisy but deceives;   'He loves me not,' 'he loves me will,'    One story no two daisies tell."     Ah foolish heart, which waits and grieves      Under the daisy's mocking spell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simon sustained a low-grade groin injury. He'll have a diagnostic scan to find out the extent of his injury. Simon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simon sustained a low-grade groin injury. He'll have a diagnostic scan to find out the extent of his injury. Simon will undergo treatment and we'll review his situation ahead of Sunday's game in Sydney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a wind scattering dandelion spores or maple samaras Lind the NASA shuttle which when it exploded sent people and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a wind scattering dandelion spores or maple samaras Lind the NASA shuttle which when it exploded sent people and thousands of captive lab animals over 6 states the innocent little nameless Mad Cow* was decimated after drawn and quartered and sent by porters to 4 states' quarters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger;  And danger, like an ague, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger;  And danger, like an ague, subtly taints   Even then when we sit idly in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27245]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. -Mary Frances Berry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65075]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29023]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For half a second, I wondered if I was dreaming. I saw something flickering, and I knew I was not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29773]]></link><description><![CDATA[For half a second, I wondered if I was dreaming. I saw something flickering, and I knew I was not dreaming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that atomic energy is a blessing given by God, ... It's an opportunity. It is a clean energy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41293]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that atomic energy is a blessing given by God, ... It's an opportunity. It is a clean energy. It is a healthy energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not immediately, but as the months and years passed, increasingly, from experience and thought based on extensive reading, I found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not immediately, but as the months and years passed, increasingly, from experience and thought based on extensive reading, I found the Evangelical faith in which I had been reared confirmed and deepened. Increasingly I rejoiced in the Gospel -- the amazing Good News -- that the Creator of what to us human beings is this bewildering and unimaginably vast universe, so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Everlasting life, I came to see, is not just continued existence, but a growing knowledge -- not merely intellectual but wondering through trust, love, and fellowship -- of Him who alone is truly God, and Jesus Christ whom He has sent. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47860]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rarely do they appear great before their valets. [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16533]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44919</guid></item></channel></rss>