<?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[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28125]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - The Would-be Gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't hurt me. He gave me a chin check. I felt one of his hardest punches and it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't hurt me. He gave me a chin check. I felt one of his hardest punches and it was nothing. In fact, it got me mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47964]]></link><description><![CDATA[We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required "blood and sweat and tears.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. [Lat., Aspere facetiae, ubi nimis ex vero traxere,  Acram sui memoriam relinquunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds  Walking in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43071]]></link><description><![CDATA[How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds  Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[California sunlight - sweet Calcutta rain - Honolulu starbright - the song remains the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57204]]></link><description><![CDATA[California sunlight - sweet Calcutta rain - Honolulu starbright - the song remains the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2053]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44219]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and that the answers are on a certain page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight,  Such heav'nly figures from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45413]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight,  Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow,   So warm with light his blended colors glow.    . . . .     The glowing portraits, fresh from life, that bring      Home to our hearts the truth from which they spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have this fantastic nugget of historical material from the Gilded Age. It's a wonderful, small overview of American painting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41233]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have this fantastic nugget of historical material from the Gilded Age. It's a wonderful, small overview of American painting from about 1870 to 1915.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools;  If honest nature made you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58731]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools;  If honest nature made you fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was Lawrence Mathis, a manager. He said. 'I like what you're doing, and I'd like to talk to you. What are your plans? What are you doing?' I said, 'You caught me at a bad time, because I'm probably moving home in a couple of months.' But I met with him that next Monday and told him what was going on. He said, 'Give me a year to work with you.' I said, 'l don't have a year. I've got six months, at best.' He said, 'All right. Six months.' Five weeks later we got offered a deal from Broken Bow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7109]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants you to do is to use the influence you have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was faithful and used what he had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17226]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had Jose McDermott at running back the other day, and he did all right. Drew was a star in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29193]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had Jose McDermott at running back the other day, and he did all right. Drew was a star in youth football, but he's a bit undersized for high school football. He has the potential of becoming a real good lineman. He just needs to continue to work on his strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11596]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't mean you have to do that (grant a waiver) for every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34055]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't mean you have to do that (grant a waiver) for every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes in here. We don't want to become a casino.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15482]]></link><description><![CDATA[To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign. - Essays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   Think it not hard if you get not your will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866   Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one loves the man whom he fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15493]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one loves the man whom he fears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big round tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase. -As You Like It. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big round tears Coursed one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29676]]></link><description><![CDATA[When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8492]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Tuesday] is the first day I've actually eaten anything or done anything. I felt pretty good on the ice. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37143]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Tuesday] is the first day I've actually eaten anything or done anything. I felt pretty good on the ice. I don't have much energy, but hopefully [today] I'll feel better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this.  A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are dancing on a volcano. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are dancing on a volcano.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23145</guid></item></channel></rss>