<?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[It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Salt Merchant and His AssA peddler drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt. His road home lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Salt Merchant and His AssA peddler drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt. His road home lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step, fell by accident and rose up again with his load considerably lighter, as the water melted the sack. The Peddler retraced his steps and refilled his panniers with a larger quantity of salt than before. When he came again to the stream, the Ass fell down on purpose in the same spot, and, regaining his feet with the weight of his load much diminished, brayed triumphantly as if he had obtained what he desired. The Peddler saw through his trick and drove him for the third time to the coast, where he bought a cargo of sponges instead of salt. The Ass, again playing the fool, fell down on purpose when he reached the stream, but the sponges became swollen with water, greatly increasing his load. And thus his trick recoiled on him, for he now carried on his back a double burden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire, Cast her ashes into the sea,--  She shall escape, she shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bind her, grind her, burn her with fire, Cast her ashes into the sea,--  She shall escape, she shall aspire,   She shall arise to make men free;    She shall arise in a sacred scorn,     Lighting the lives that are yet unborn,      Spirit supernal, splendor eternal,       England!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52551]]></link><description><![CDATA[It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God bless the King--I mean the faith's defender; God bless (no harm in blessing) the pretender;  But who the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54454]]></link><description><![CDATA[God bless the King--I mean the faith's defender; God bless (no harm in blessing) the pretender;  But who the pretender is, or who is King--   God bless us all--that's quite another thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1126]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. - Reflections on Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  Many people despise those who spend their health, strength ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14698]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right as a trivet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right as a trivet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darryl Gibson has been quite magnificent coming inside Andrew Mehrtens, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darryl Gibson has been quite magnificent coming inside Andrew Mehrtens, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of the same today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first year at Salem State, 1998-99, I decided I needed to get used to my surroundings so I didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34332]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first year at Salem State, 1998-99, I decided I needed to get used to my surroundings so I didn't play basketball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get on that field, I am faster than any defensive back there. I really am _ I get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37401]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get on that field, I am faster than any defensive back there. I really am _ I get open and I get separation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The Church is her true self only when she exists for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687  The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the poor and needy. The clergy should live solely on the free-will offerings of their congregations, or possibly engage in some secular calling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, that juveniles were sprayed with pepper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, that juveniles were sprayed with pepper spray while in restraints,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they scored first, as a coach I was rethinking what we were doing. We got a couple nice [goals] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31293]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they scored first, as a coach I was rethinking what we were doing. We got a couple nice [goals] after that and found our offensive legs a bit more. I think the key was trying to play more forward, play a little more direct offensively.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we just royally confused some winter campers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we just royally confused some winter campers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High drug costs are already forcing people to cut their pills, take less and sometimes not even be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40902]]></link><description><![CDATA[High drug costs are already forcing people to cut their pills, take less and sometimes not even be able to fill their prescriptions at all. Eliminating 'wrap around' coverage is a harsh move that will deny drugs to our state's most vulnerable populations - we urge the Legislature to reject the Governor's proposal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think anytime we can do anything for anyone it's good. We just happened to be in a position where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think anytime we can do anything for anyone it's good. We just happened to be in a position where we could help out. ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ Anything that has to do with family and kids, it doesn't take much convincing for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16764]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, it's a blow to the Gore camp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, it's a blow to the Gore camp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?  'Tis better to have fought and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6056]]></link><description><![CDATA[What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost?  'Tis better to have fought and lost   That never to have fought at all!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and almost never leave. Our lives are measured by those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I suppose I can give your career a bit of a leg-up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I suppose I can give your career a bit of a leg-up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  Continuing a short series on prayer:  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  Continuing a short series on prayer:  The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33684]]></link><description><![CDATA[At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be on my own and make music and write my dreams down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17610]]></link><description><![CDATA[In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!  What a world of happiness their harmony foretells   Through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!  What a world of happiness their harmony foretells   Through the balmy air of night    How they ring out their delight!     From the molten golden notes,      And all in tune       What a liquid ditty floats        To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats         On the moon!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3856]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. •Marie Carmichael Stopes  Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19001]]></link><description><![CDATA[One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told her we just needed a ball into the outfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told her we just needed a ball into the outfield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2472]]></link><description><![CDATA[In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20957]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God, keep me innocent; make others great! [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced, Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke, Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51083]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke, Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity knows no law except to conquer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity knows no law except to conquer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do,  To make a poet excellent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46848]]></link><description><![CDATA[And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do,  To make a poet excellent,   But only want and discontent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22490</guid></item></channel></rss>