<?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 noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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There are quite a lot of liqueurs with fruit flavours but nothing quite like port.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45573]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr Joyce Brothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. -Dr Joyce Brothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46730]]></link><description><![CDATA[In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been very helpful and accommodating, and I like coming to a local business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been very helpful and accommodating, and I like coming to a local business,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't understand I felt I had accomplished all I wanted as a player in football. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41330]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't understand I felt I had accomplished all I wanted as a player in football.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling in love is the single most expressive feeling a person can have. Losing that love suddenly, can be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love is the single most expressive feeling a person can have. Losing that love suddenly, can be the most painful feeling a person can have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know how to live the time that is given you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know how to live the time that is given you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  Is it not plain that all spiritual apathy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878  Is it not plain that all spiritual apathy comes not from over-trust but from unbelief, either doubting that sin is present death, or else that holiness is life and that Jesus has a gift to bestow, not in heaven, but promptly, which is better to gain than all the world? Therefore salvation is linked with faith, which earns nothing but elicits all, like the touch that evokes electricity but which no man supposes to have made it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't be upset if they lost. I think everyone would like to keep a record intact. But we understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't be upset if they lost. I think everyone would like to keep a record intact. But we understand records are there to be broken. One day, somebody's going to do it. The Colts have a very good opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For all their luxury was doing good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17858]]></link><description><![CDATA[For all their luxury was doing good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58536]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Sesquippledan', he would say, 'Sesquippledan verboojuice". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27970]]></link><description><![CDATA['Sesquippledan', he would say, 'Sesquippledan verboojuice".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3463]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65419]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45914]]></link><description><![CDATA[For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49962]]></link><description><![CDATA[They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you any relation to your brother Marv?(spoken to announcer Steve Albert) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you any relation to your brother Marv?(spoken to announcer Steve Albert)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50259]]></link><description><![CDATA[How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recruited some really good talent, so it's just a matter of those guys coming in, learning the system and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recruited some really good talent, so it's just a matter of those guys coming in, learning the system and playing up to their capabilities. We'll need all of those guys ready to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is only by fidelity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754  It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit... No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice, Perseverance, and Patience-Win always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice, Perseverance, and Patience-Win always.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple and brave, his faith awoke Ploughmen to struggle with their fate;  Armies won battles when he spoke,   And out of Chaos sprang the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every castle of the air Sleeps in the fine black grains, and there  Are seeds for every romance, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every castle of the air Sleeps in the fine black grains, and there  Are seeds for every romance, or light   Whiff of a dream for a summer night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The compromise we made with the AA this time was a fair one. It is a privilege for us to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The compromise we made with the AA this time was a fair one. It is a privilege for us to use these courts and in order to continue using them we need to work together so that the courts stay in good condition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64608]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28013</guid></item></channel></rss>