<?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[If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15851]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lungs of London. (Parks) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lungs of London. (Parks)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pouring oil on troubled water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pouring oil on troubled water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone seemed really calm and accepting; no one was irate. I think once everyone was fully informed of what was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone seemed really calm and accepting; no one was irate. I think once everyone was fully informed of what was going on and where to go, they seemed to react better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog won't forsake his master because of his poverty; a son never deserts his mother for her homely appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62819]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog won't forsake his master because of his poverty; a son never deserts his mother for her homely appearance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All concord's born of contraries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60428]]></link><description><![CDATA[All concord's born of contraries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shooting 34 percent in the state basketball tournament, I don't think you're going to win a lot of games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shooting 34 percent in the state basketball tournament, I don't think you're going to win a lot of games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4458]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had to press up and play good defense. Good defense turns into good offense. We take pride in playing good defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's clear from extensive research is that most people do not get digestive changes from eating Olean snacks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36052]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's clear from extensive research is that most people do not get digestive changes from eating Olean snacks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my integrity I'll wrap me up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50274]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my integrity I'll wrap me up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew the way they (Cougars) played, they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew the way they (Cougars) played, they were going to let us back in the game. We just kept battling. We never lost our confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25000]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8102]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a true man, and Christ was a true man. His prayer in Gethsemane, his sweat of blood, show that the preceding anxiety is a part of human affliction, which we must try to accept with some sort of submission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Am I a stone, and not a sheep,  That I can stand, 0 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 Am I a stone, and not a sheep,  That I can stand, 0 Christ, beneath Thy cross,  To number drop by drop Thy Blood's slow loss,  And yet not weep? Not so those women loved  Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee;  Not so fallen Peter weeping bitterly;  Not so the thief was moved; Not so the Sun and Moon  Which hid their faces in a starless sky:  A horror of great darkness at broad noon I only I. Yet give not o'er  But seek Thy sheep, true Shepherd of the flock;  Greater than Moses, turn and look once more  And smite a rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine  In proud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine  In proud display; yet take this truth from me--   Virtue alone is true nobility!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down & Connor, Priest, Teacher, 1667 Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, Social Reformer, 1910 Commemoration of Octavia Hill, Worker for the Poor, 1912   The kingdom of God does not consist in words, but in power, the power of Godliness. Though now we are fallen upon another method, we have turned all religion into faith, and our faith is nothing but the production of interest or disputing; it is adhering to a party and a wrangling against all the world beside--and when it is asked of what religion he is, we understand the meaning to be what faction does he follow, what are the articles of his sect, not what is the manner of his life: and if men be zealous for their party and that interest, then they are precious men, though otherwise they be covetous as the grave, factious as Dathan, schismatical as Korah, or proud as the fallen angels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62035]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62035</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 a wise child that knows his own father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5993]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a wise child that knows his own father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it\'s a dichotomy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that pure thinking will do more to educate a man than any other activity he can engage in. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that pure thinking will do more to educate a man than any other activity he can engage in. To afford sympathetic entertainment to abstract ideas, to let one idea beget another, and that another, till the mind teems with them; to compare one idea with others, to weigh, to consider, evaluate, approve, respect, correct, refine; to join thought with thought like an architect till a whole edifice has been created within the mind; to travel back in imagination to the beginning of the creation and then to leap swiftly forward to the end of time; to bound upward through illimitable space and downward into the nucleus of an atom; and all this without so much as moving from our chair or opening the eyes--this is to soar above all the lower creation and come near to the angels of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is aware of how to kill the birds. This is the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is aware of how to kill the birds. This is the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody talked to nobody. That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody talked to nobody. That's why we just was almost too late. If we'd been a little later they would have disposed of the bodies with 'next of kin unknown,' and that would have been . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41508]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has certainly been an exceptional year. The index surged to record highs that no one had expected. High oil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28925]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has certainly been an exceptional year. The index surged to record highs that no one had expected. High oil prices played a pivotal role in the market's magnificent run, as they did in stock markets in neighboring oil-rich Gulf States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54649]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Sinners are much more fun...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten milliondollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten milliondollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are going to sit down with our legal counsel and sort out the ramifications of this ruling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41898]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are going to sit down with our legal counsel and sort out the ramifications of this ruling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9483]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5500</guid></item></channel></rss>