<?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[Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and a nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chilled hidebound hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42474]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? - The Color Purple, 1982.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1694]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America—and change soon. We must help that change to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26212]]></link><description><![CDATA[One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The number of youth addictions treatment beds will increase by approximately 75 per cent and allows us to build capacity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The number of youth addictions treatment beds will increase by approximately 75 per cent and allows us to build capacity to ensure youth across the province get the assistance they need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23373]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4425]]></link><description><![CDATA[An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[" Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14654]]></link><description><![CDATA[" Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive."--- Copyright © 2000 Stacey Charter]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43447]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain!  With faith o'ercome the steeps   Thy God hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14965]]></link><description><![CDATA["Take courage, soul! Hold not thy strength in vain!  With faith o'ercome the steeps   Thy God hath set for thee.    Beyond the Alpine summits of great pain     Lieth thine Italy."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Apella the Jew credit it, if he will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Apella the Jew credit it, if he will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abundance, like want, ruins many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abundance, like want, ruins many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still progressing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still progressing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know. I didn't see it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know. I didn't see it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The pain now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The pain now is part of the happiness (then).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48399]]></link><description><![CDATA[To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Innocents  The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings the man to God, love brings him to men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26656]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27605]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The current immigration system lacks the fundamental understanding of the need for immigrants in this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The current immigration system lacks the fundamental understanding of the need for immigrants in this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16687]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61240]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a star in the West that shall never go down Till the records of Valour decay,  We must worship its light though it is not our own,   For liberty burst in its ray.    Shall the name of a Washington ever be heard     By a freeman, and thrill not his breast?      Is there one out of bondage that hails not the word,       As a Bethlehem Star of the West?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies, as he flies, adds increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies, as he flies, adds increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15548]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63899]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joke is a very serious thing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23299]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joke is a very serious thing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only drink wine, and it's a bit early for that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only drink wine, and it's a bit early for that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59796]]></link><description><![CDATA[But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last, lonely trailing indicator of the business cycle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last, lonely trailing indicator of the business cycle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They believe in their heart of hearts that their comprehensive plan is going to do more than Hilton's $70 per ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37308]]></link><description><![CDATA[They believe in their heart of hearts that their comprehensive plan is going to do more than Hilton's $70 per share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes no sense to be second in someone's life, when you know you're good enough to be first in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63315]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes no sense to be second in someone's life, when you know you're good enough to be first in someone else's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has been very outspoken about her desire to be a young bride... so the idea of her learning what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31585]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has been very outspoken about her desire to be a young bride... so the idea of her learning what it's like to be married works either way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The period which marked the enormous statistical success of the revival churches was also the period which saw membership standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The period which marked the enormous statistical success of the revival churches was also the period which saw membership standards decline almost to the vanishing point. Today the [various denominations] don't even have enough authority to keep their members out of mob violence, let alone hold them to difficult standards of theological or ethical or moral excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5873]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You train and train and train for one match. You only have four two-minute rounds ? that's eight minutes ? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29153]]></link><description><![CDATA[You train and train and train for one match. You only have four two-minute rounds ? that's eight minutes ? to show what you've got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29153</guid></item></channel></rss>