<?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[We talked about coming out and playing 32 minutes of solid basketball and I think we played 27 or 28 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34115]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked about coming out and playing 32 minutes of solid basketball and I think we played 27 or 28 minutes very well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain,  And bear the marks upon a blushing face,   OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With bag and baggage. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55665]]></link><description><![CDATA[With bag and baggage. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we must take the current when it serves; Or lose our ventures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51292]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we must take the current when it serves; Or lose our ventures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.  Things which in hungry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.  Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our neighborhood is so drenched in pain and blood. It's the business of the church to try to offer understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our neighborhood is so drenched in pain and blood. It's the business of the church to try to offer understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55331]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if it please you, so; if not, why, so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18915]]></link><description><![CDATA[When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale. These types of stories just stir up issues ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34172]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no talks going on, and CNN is not for sale. These types of stories just stir up issues that don't exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15660]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I awoke one morning and found myself famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15094]]></link><description><![CDATA[I awoke one morning and found myself famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1925]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! [Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gives consumers the convenience of the Internet, with the peace of mind of working with an ASTA travel professional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37089]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gives consumers the convenience of the Internet, with the peace of mind of working with an ASTA travel professional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Southern Baptist Convention today would be part of the religious right and 20 years ago it would have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Southern Baptist Convention today would be part of the religious right and 20 years ago it would have been more mainstream. I think it would also be fair to say the conservatives have developed pretty strong ties to the Republican Party.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inaction may be the biggest form of action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inaction may be the biggest form of action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason cannot know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to talk to people and hear their concerns, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41616]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to talk to people and hear their concerns,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62357]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16486]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may with advantage forget what we know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has a family member or knows somebody who's been locked up, who's been murdered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has a family member or knows somebody who's been locked up, who's been murdered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have 25,000 messengers to send our message out like the school district has . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have 25,000 messengers to send our message out like the school district has .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not just a Jewish thing, it's a faith thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not just a Jewish thing, it's a faith thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless ourwalking is our preaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless ourwalking is our preaching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18805]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64694]]></link><description><![CDATA[For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46274]]></link><description><![CDATA[If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53664]]></link><description><![CDATA[A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To deny it or to shake your finger at it is a limited and very paternal... point of view in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29207]]></link><description><![CDATA[To deny it or to shake your finger at it is a limited and very paternal... point of view in a sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13089]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun will set without thy assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun will set without thy assistance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65972]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communicate respectfully with the person. It's important parents talk to other parents and learn what questions to ask. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communicate respectfully with the person. It's important parents talk to other parents and learn what questions to ask.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60100]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44382</guid></item></channel></rss>