<?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[For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39349]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first time in my life I feel important. I'd like to have five babies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50986]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26443]]></link><description><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of every individual man should be a Bible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of every individual man should be a Bible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to abstain from writing satire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to abstain from writing satire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14910]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   When we are troubled with temptation and evil thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   When we are troubled with temptation and evil thoughts, then we see clearly the great need we have of God, since without him we can do nothing good. No one is so good that he is immune to temptation; we will never [in this life] be entirely free of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way Prescott is going to get through something to do with transport policy, is if the public think there are too many damn things on the road, and use the railways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness beat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness beat away those blushes. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Thomas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Thomas Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47558]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is in art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is in art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897  He said: that in order to form a habit of conversing with God continually, and referring all we do to Him; we must first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the vulnerability, the naked face. And then, of course, I hadn't done a contemporary story in 3 or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the vulnerability, the naked face. And then, of course, I hadn't done a contemporary story in 3 or 4 films, so that also interested me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he's the best country songwriter there ever was. My mom and dad played his music all the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he's the best country songwriter there ever was. My mom and dad played his music all the time when I was growing up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die?  Here's thirty thousand Cornish men   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45782]]></link><description><![CDATA[And have they fixed the where, and when? And shall Trelawny die?  Here's thirty thousand Cornish men   Will know the reason why!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ's call is to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; He came not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ's call is to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; He came not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; not to build and furnish comfortable chapels, churches, and cathedrals at home in which to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays, stereotyped prayers, and artistic musical performances, but to capture men from the devil's clutches and the very jaws of Hell. This can be accomplished only by a red-hot, unconventional, unfettered devotion, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to the Lord Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done,  But that life may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done,  But that life may have just enough shadow   To temper the glare of the sun;    I would pray God to guard them from evil,     But my prayer would bound back to myself:      Ah! a seraph may pray for a sinner,       But a sinner must pray for himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48058</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[Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In art, the obvious is a sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63509]]></link><description><![CDATA[In art, the obvious is a sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's shaping up great. We've had great response. It's a beautiful addition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33345]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's shaping up great. We've had great response. It's a beautiful addition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's [the memorial is] a beautiful spot and fits in here at the soccer fields perfectly, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's [the memorial is] a beautiful spot and fits in here at the soccer fields perfectly,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42788]]></link><description><![CDATA[A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2502]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom still eats meat. I will encourage her when it's appropriate to not eat meat. In fact, when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31157]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom still eats meat. I will encourage her when it's appropriate to not eat meat. In fact, when we sit down at a table to eat, I don't hesitate to tell her how gross eating meat seems just as often as she nags me about my driving when we are in a car together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consumer has responded by renting more and renting more often, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consumer has responded by renting more and renting more often,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Katie and (catcher Eryn) Richardson did a great job. Katie was hitting her spots and Eryn kept them off balance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Katie and (catcher Eryn) Richardson did a great job. Katie was hitting her spots and Eryn kept them off balance with the pitch selection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36436]]></link><description><![CDATA[For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been on this team for four years and this is the first time we have beaten Fallbrook. Guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been on this team for four years and this is the first time we have beaten Fallbrook. Guys from past years who used to be on this team kept telling me that we wouldn't be able to do it, so it's nice to show them that it could be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church has magnificent buildings, superb equipment, trained leadership, excellent teaching materials, organizational ability, and yet lacks that one thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church has magnificent buildings, superb equipment, trained leadership, excellent teaching materials, organizational ability, and yet lacks that one thing that could take all these tools and make them the channel of God's will. In spite of its ever-increasing membership, the church lacks the spirit of God's growing love and understanding that can transform it from an efficient organization into a loving, dynamic fellowship where men and women become vitally alive with faith, love, and hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20769]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a way of life, not just a job. You have to want to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40456]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a way of life, not just a job. You have to want to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61437]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22500</guid></item></channel></rss>