<?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 average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power  To learn to bear is easier than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62189]]></link><description><![CDATA[This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power  To learn to bear is easier than to shun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, it's too close to call. I had a lot of surprises last night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, it's too close to call. I had a lot of surprises last night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The snow has at last melted, the fields regain their herbage, and the trees their leaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witha person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witha person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouringall right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that afaithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keepingand, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  To worship is to quicken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, and to devote the will to the purpose of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, not force, rides the horse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, not force, rides the horse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/145]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face?  How shall I charm the interval that lowers   Between this time and that sweet time of grace?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are only as wise as others perceive you to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46095]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are only as wise as others perceive you to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929   From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929   From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26146]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And still it half calls up the realms of fairy,   Where I beheld what never was to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thanklessChristmas dinner's dark and blueWhen you stop and try to see itFrom the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/205]]></link><description><![CDATA[POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thanklessChristmas dinner's dark and blueWhen you stop and try to see itFrom the turkey's point of view.Sunday dinner isn't sunnyEaster feasts are just bad luckWhen you see it from the viewpointOf a chicken or a duck.Oh how I once loved tuna saladPork and lobsters, lamb chops tooTill I stopped and looked at dinnerFrom the dinner's point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9833]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664  Continuing a short series on prayer:   All outward power that we exercise in the things about us is but a shadow in comparison of that inward power that resides in our will, imagination, and desires; these communicate with eternity and kindle a life which always reaches either Heaven or hell... Here lies the ground of the great efficacy of prayer, which when it is the prayer of the heart, the prayer of faith, has a kindling and creating power, and forms and transforms the soul into everything that the desire reaches after: it has the key to the Kingdom of Heaven and unlocks all its treasures; it opens, extends and moves that in us which has its being and motion in and with the divine nature. and so it brings us into real union and Communion with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is prejudice made plausible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they went to the state, and came back as a state champion, then we were all sisters and brothers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29026]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they went to the state, and came back as a state champion, then we were all sisters and brothers there really.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2372]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every bonus point counts when you are trying to win it all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every bonus point counts when you are trying to win it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. [Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4667]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was my dream to help people in Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34803]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was my dream to help people in Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took 25 years to de-list the peregrine falcon. We are only at nine or 10 years and we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36134]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took 25 years to de-list the peregrine falcon. We are only at nine or 10 years and we have a long way to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, so people don't get caught. The institutions that have taken decisions that might put them into harm's way are probably fewer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes,  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,   Thou art now wise. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes,  Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,   Thou art now wise.    Wake the power within thee slumbering,     Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,      Thou wilt bless the task when reaping       Sweet labour's prize.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a fantastic breakthrough advertising and marketing campaign that is sure to be a great success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38065]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a fantastic breakthrough advertising and marketing campaign that is sure to be a great success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be too busie gets contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49999]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be too busie gets contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4191]]></link><description><![CDATA[And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree: Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead. And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president has the power to pick up a pen and require car companies to raise fuel-efficiency standards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president has the power to pick up a pen and require car companies to raise fuel-efficiency standards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,  Look what thou hast brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,  Look what thou hast brought this land to!--]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is not ours till we live by it, till it is the Religion of our thoughts, words, and actions, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is not ours till we live by it, till it is the Religion of our thoughts, words, and actions, till it goes with us into every place, sits uppermost on every occasion, and forms and governs our hopes and fears, our cares and pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no way this bank should be sold at this price because all the information about the business of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29909]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no way this bank should be sold at this price because all the information about the business of the bank, about the balance sheet, clearly states that this bank should be sold around the 61 to 65 (pound per share) level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great for New England golf fans that the PGA Tour has made Labor Day weekend an annual end-of-summer destination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great for New England golf fans that the PGA Tour has made Labor Day weekend an annual end-of-summer destination at the TPC.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30249</guid></item></channel></rss>