<?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[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian message is not an exhortation -- "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God enters by a private door into every individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17716]]></link><description><![CDATA[God enters by a private door into every individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59899]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45531]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58524]]></link><description><![CDATA[We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it. -Emmet Fox.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still people are dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still people are dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46927]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you know the less you need to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you know the less you need to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27843]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15179]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9893]]></link><description><![CDATA[A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33680]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're an unselfish group willing to do whatever it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29853]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17926]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57791]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the foundation of most governments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the foundation of most governments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let reason govern desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We put in a lot of effort, our fans cheer us on although what we need is to greater consistency ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37402]]></link><description><![CDATA[We put in a lot of effort, our fans cheer us on although what we need is to greater consistency and better performances on the road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives aredeveloped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is that little darkroom where negatives aredeveloped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66276]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do the wordsof the Peaceful Masterbecome the tiradesof warmonger pastors? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8229]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do the wordsof the Peaceful Masterbecome the tiradesof warmonger pastors?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/74]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/74</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50078]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'!  Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'!  Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath,   He's stampin', and he's jumpin'!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alternate heating sources seems to be a hot item this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alternate heating sources seems to be a hot item this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41551]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40156]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52820]]></link><description><![CDATA[He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let that flea stick in the wa', when the dirt's dry, it'll rub out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let that flea stick in the wa', when the dirt's dry, it'll rub out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51093</guid></item></channel></rss>