<?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[Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives;  Over and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind is awake, pretty leave, pretty leaves, Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives;  Over and over   To the lowly clover    He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too).     He will be lisping and pledging to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's memory is his private literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's memory is his private literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caring is a reflex... You live, you help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caring is a reflex... You live, you help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose, it shouldn't knock you down to the point you can't rebound. This was a whole new match ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30966]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose, it shouldn't knock you down to the point you can't rebound. This was a whole new match and a whole new opponent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4817]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is a private and costly luxury]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25256]]></link><description><![CDATA[All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called "Huckleberry Finn."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4196]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3186]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.  'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real problem is structural: retail consolidation, difficulties in the classified auto space and competition from other media. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real problem is structural: retail consolidation, difficulties in the classified auto space and competition from other media.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately, you have to learn how to live within the confines of a courtroom and not a boardroom. Lay did not master the courtroom as other chief executives have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[When we filmed Animal House, I] found John [Belushi] astonishingly shy and vulnerable. Rather than being a confident established star, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39462]]></link><description><![CDATA[[When we filmed Animal House, I] found John [Belushi] astonishingly shy and vulnerable. Rather than being a confident established star, he seemed nervous about meeting everyone, about fitting in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14830]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still fighting for home-field advantage in the first round of against Dallas. Even if we could catch first place we've still got to wrap up second, so it doesn't make much of a difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;  It's that confounded cucumber   I've ate and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13157]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast;  It's that confounded cucumber   I've ate and can't digest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're providing all the supplies and dinner. Parents just bring in pictures they want to put in the scrapbook, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29146]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're providing all the supplies and dinner. Parents just bring in pictures they want to put in the scrapbook, and the essay the kids wrote will be the centerpiece. It will pull a little at the heartstrings because the essay and pictures are so meaningful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He loved God, and he loved the community, and he couldn't leave one for the other. He saw that neighborhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39989]]></link><description><![CDATA[He loved God, and he loved the community, and he couldn't leave one for the other. He saw that neighborhood as holy ground. For him, that meant staying in it and cultivating its talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtlety set a trap and caught itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtlety set a trap and caught itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky,  And spangled heavens, a shining frame,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky,  And spangled heavens, a shining frame,   Their great Original proclaim.    Forever singing, as they shine,     The hand that made us is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engine of my car blew up. So there we were by the side of the road, with no way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32076]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engine of my car blew up. So there we were by the side of the road, with no way to go any further.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to travel well than to arrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to travel well than to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living from hand to mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living from hand to mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health and mony goe farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health and mony goe farre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50263]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strive to mould circumstances to myself, not myself to circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does in England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24522]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21995]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23019]]></link><description><![CDATA[An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24272]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is a country where, thanks to Congress, there are 40 million laws to enforce 10 commandments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who can make hard things easy is the educator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs.The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs.The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4264]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe this has been a scare tactic to create attention, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28265]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe this has been a scare tactic to create attention,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough. [Lat., Multa petentibus  Desunt multa.   Bene est, cui Deus obtulit    Parca, quod satis est manu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it seems as far as it was prudent to bid man go. The "greater love than this" of which our Lord speaks, though He does not command it, is to give oneself for one's friends. And when one does this, or is ready to do this, prayer even for "us" seems too selfish -- and it is unnecessary, for we then possess all that God Himself can give us. The easy renunciation of self for the Beloved becomes the very breath of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5030</guid></item></channel></rss>