<?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[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44853]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9657]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancestral voices prophesying war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancestral voices prophesying war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1976]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is not gold that one sees shining. [Fr., Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is not gold that one sees shining. [Fr., Que tout n'est pas or c'on voit luire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with competency in electronics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with competency in electronics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40885]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's totally it, ... Some people say, 'Whoa! That was great! Thanks a lot.' Then they go over and sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33267]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's totally it, ... Some people say, 'Whoa! That was great! Thanks a lot.' Then they go over and sit down right over there. Then there's people like myself who think that it's the greatest thing ever. And you can't get enough of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward for a job well done is more work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward for a job well done is more work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2545]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask who are guilty. [Lat., Trahit ipse furoris  Impetus, et visum est lenti quaesisse nocentum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a stone there, That whoever kisses,  Oh! he never misses   To grow eloquent.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23052]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a stone there, That whoever kisses,  Oh! he never misses   To grow eloquent.    'Tis he may clamber     To a lady's chamber      Or become a member       Of Parliament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we wanted to show was that this man, after 30 years, decides he wants to die and he doesn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28765]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we wanted to show was that this man, after 30 years, decides he wants to die and he doesn't seem to us like someone who was unstable, as some people have suggested.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11491]]></link><description><![CDATA[And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who profits by a crime, commits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51156]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who profits by a crime, commits it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry a widdow before she leave mourning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;  And out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1730]]></link><description><![CDATA[For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;  And out of old bokis, in good fey,   Comyth al this newe science that men lere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  You must not lose confidence in God because you lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we would be on shifting sand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,that I can do, any kindness that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,that I can do, any kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do itnow. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10726]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why don't the men propose, mamma? Why don't the men propose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why don't the men propose, mamma? Why don't the men propose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18083]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things--trout as well as eternal salvation--come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Draw your salary before spending it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Draw your salary before spending it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Court, every one for himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49140]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Court, every one for himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to talk with people who care about things that matter thatwill make a life-changing difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to talk with people who care about things that matter thatwill make a life-changing difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They cast their nets in Galilee, just off the hills of brown; Such happy, simple fisherfolk, before the Lord came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6657]]></link><description><![CDATA[They cast their nets in Galilee, just off the hills of brown; Such happy, simple fisherfolk, before the Lord came down. Contented, peaceful fishermen, before they ever knew The peace of God that filled their hearts brimful, and broke them too. Young John who trimmed the flapping sail, homeless in Patmos died. Peter, who hauled the teeming net, head-down was crucified. The peace of God, it is no peace, but strife closed in the sod; Yet, brothers, pray for but one thing -- the marvelous peace of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea is the only level which moves the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9405]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is the only level which moves the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many without punishment, none without sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many without punishment, none without sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65950]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks  Round from his parted forelock manly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54485]]></link><description><![CDATA[His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks  Round from his parted forelock manly hung   Clustering but not beneath his shoulders broad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The result has been a lack of trust and the situation has deteriorated instead of improving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The result has been a lack of trust and the situation has deteriorated instead of improving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23164]]></link><description><![CDATA[To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49095]]></link><description><![CDATA[All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kisses: Words which cannot be written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kisses: Words which cannot be written.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spots all night. It was easy for me to find them. And they were making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spots all night. It was easy for me to find them. And they were making shots. I feel I've become quicker and stronger -- mentally and physically -- to deal with the college basketball game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the onlything you'll have left is your character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the onlything you'll have left is your character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22436</guid></item></channel></rss>