<?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[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66559]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back of the boy is Wilson, Pledge of his high degree,  Back of the boy is Lincoln,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back of the boy is Wilson, Pledge of his high degree,  Back of the boy is Lincoln,   Lincoln and Grant and Lee;    Back of the boy is Jackson,     Jackson and Tippecanoe,      Back of each son is Washington,       And the old red, white and blue!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12297]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45098]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have achieved our first mission, to nominate the alliance candidate for prime minister. We must now move ahead with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37416]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have achieved our first mission, to nominate the alliance candidate for prime minister. We must now move ahead with the nest step, which is the formation of the new government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63266]]></link><description><![CDATA[To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an old cliche, but we've still got to get one more win. But we have the confidence to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31638]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an old cliche, but we've still got to get one more win. But we have the confidence to know that we can be down and dig our way out of the hole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1276]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53278]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that reality may intrude, that perhaps the steps ahead and the days ahead are going to be much more difficult than one expects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  If the ordinary canons of history, used in every other case, hold good in this case, Jesus is undoubtedly an historical person. If he is not an historical person, the only alternative is that there is no such thing as history at all -- it is delirium, nothing else; and a rational being would be better employed in the collection of snuff-boxes. And if history is impossible, so is all other knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41719]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manufacturing surveys from September confirm that there has been no broad-based deterioration in activity due to the energy price ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manufacturing surveys from September confirm that there has been no broad-based deterioration in activity due to the energy price spike in the aftermath of Katrina. This is quite promising for the growth outlook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You walk over red-hot lava hidden beneath treacherous ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50402]]></link><description><![CDATA[You walk over red-hot lava hidden beneath treacherous ashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to beasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to beasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The AP] informed us last semester their operations were to shut down, ... It caught us by surprise originally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34042]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The AP] informed us last semester their operations were to shut down, ... It caught us by surprise originally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45601]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa  Fortuna.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa  Fortuna.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.(on whether he had visited the Parthenon during ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.(on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The helicopter didn't transmit any kind of distress call that we know of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The helicopter didn't transmit any kind of distress call that we know of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones,  That men may rise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones,  That men may rise on stepping stones   Or their dead selves to higher things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, It makes you lean....Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, It makes you lean....Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into the wilderness to pray." He was never for one moment of any day out of touch with God. He was speaking and listening to the Father all day long; and yet He, who was in such constant touch with God, felt the need, as well as the joy, of more prolonged and more quiet communion with Him... Most of the reasons that drive us to pray for strength and forgiveness could never have driven Him; and yet He needed prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad that they made the right choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad that they made the right choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33592]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom and dad and children who have lost everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, the United Iraqi Alliance, were surprised by the results. We were expecting more seats. The opponents have made it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, the United Iraqi Alliance, were surprised by the results. We were expecting more seats. The opponents have made it clear through their statements and warnings that they stand alongside the terrorists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What were vices have become the fashion of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51209]]></link><description><![CDATA[What were vices have become the fashion of the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9540]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This division of labour will lessen the task. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50634]]></link><description><![CDATA[This division of labour will lessen the task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30132]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York has all that intense hatred and pain-just torture-where everything is 10 times as hard as it needs to be, and everything is terribly important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You measure a government by how few people need help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19185]]></link><description><![CDATA[You measure a government by how few people need help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We proved we can also win on penalties. We dealt with that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33646]]></link><description><![CDATA[We proved we can also win on penalties. We dealt with that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode,  A country lad and lassie,   Along the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode,  A country lad and lassie,   Along the heavy road.    The night was dark and stormy,     But blithe of heart were they,      For shining in the distance       The lights of London lay.        O gleaming lights of London, that gem of the city's crown;         What fortunes be within you, O Lights of London Town!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55170]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38795]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38795</guid></item></channel></rss>