<?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[Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise,  And interpret your device,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise,  And interpret your device,   . . . .    All things wait for and divine him,--     How shall I dare to malign him?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to be a team that's going to surprise some people. Our hitting is coming around. We worked hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40956]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to be a team that's going to surprise some people. Our hitting is coming around. We worked hard in the off-season to get strong and have faster bat speed. And so far, it looks like we have more pop in the bat this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54075]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30244]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53804]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl yesterday, she was pregnant. Had her whole belly showin' and ya' know what she had painted on it? "Love Child"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46179]]></link><description><![CDATA[To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear has its use but cowardice has none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear has its use but cowardice has none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act as if it were impossible to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miami was coming off of a tough loss and I thought if we got that doubles point we would have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miami was coming off of a tough loss and I thought if we got that doubles point we would have a lot of momentum. We couldn't capitalize on that momentum and that's unusual for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61351]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them,  Who were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45999]]></link><description><![CDATA[For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them,  Who were accustomed, as a sort of god,   To see the sultan, rich in many a gem,    Like an imperial peacock stalk abroad     (That royal bird, whose tail's a diadem,)      With all the pomp of power, it was a doubt       How power could condescend to do without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being traded as commodities and stolen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2686]]></link><description><![CDATA[By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62332]]></link><description><![CDATA[This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday is not a day of the week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday is not a day of the week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6948]]></link><description><![CDATA["What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Mass the matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62299]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Mass the matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale and never tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale and never tried it again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hatt is not made for one shower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49035]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hatt is not made for one shower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus might have said, "I became man for you. If you do not becomeGod for me, you wrong me.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus might have said, "I became man for you. If you do not becomeGod for me, you wrong me.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32928]]></link><description><![CDATA[On an ongoing basis, manufacturers are raising prices because they can. It enhances profitability, largely because there are few incremental costs, and consumers' response to a higher price is relatively modest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education: A debt due from present to future generations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education: A debt due from present to future generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13639</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[There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2059]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22593]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm pretty hopeful that the public will be favorable to it this time because we have had some comments that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm pretty hopeful that the public will be favorable to it this time because we have had some comments that the lily pads are getting to be too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That makes it a lot more exciting for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35442]]></link><description><![CDATA[That makes it a lot more exciting for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Kerke the narre, from God more farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8687]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general's disdained By him one step below, he by the next,  The next by him beneath; so every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general's disdained By him one step below, he by the next,  The next by him beneath; so every step,   Exampled by the first pace that is sick    Of his superior, grows to an envious fever     Of pale and bloodless emulation:      And 'tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot,       Not her own sinews.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No new troops were added, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34271]]></link><description><![CDATA[No new troops were added,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were no civilian or firefighter injuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33805]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were no civilian or firefighter injuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was kind of like the big bang theory, except instead of nothing building up and creating the universe fail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36913]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was kind of like the big bang theory, except instead of nothing building up and creating the universe fail built up and exploded creating him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress has a duty to taxpayers to make informed decisions when carrying out its legislative, appropriation, and oversight functions. Such decisions require access to timely and accurate information, and when access is restricted, we are unable to provide oversight and fulfill our constitutional responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always brave to say what everyone thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46351]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16958</guid></item></channel></rss>