<?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 natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17247]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature  Loved her own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature  Loved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature.   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20684]]></link><description><![CDATA[And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes are the mirror of the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes are the mirror of the soul]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service without reward is punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service without reward is punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One good quote is worth a book ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52829]]></link><description><![CDATA[One good quote is worth a book]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persevere in virtue and diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persevere in virtue and diligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? [Lat., Stemmata quid faciunt, quid prodest, Pontice, longo,  Sanguine censeri pictosque ostendere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride thehorse in that direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride thehorse in that direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every monarch is subject to a mightier one. [Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every monarch is subject to a mightier one. [Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act the part and you will become the part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act the part and you will become the part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and so I say, God bless Christmas!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2396]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm saddest when I sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm saddest when I sing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forecasts for the second-half of the year for the most part seem to support a recovery, but to some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34039]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forecasts for the second-half of the year for the most part seem to support a recovery, but to some extent, that's already priced into the market, so you're not seeing that much stock reaction. There's not a lot of conviction and some people will take profits. But I think there will continue to be a moderately upwards bias for the remainder of the year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While he who walks in love may wander far, But God will bring him where the Blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have an inflatable dome. It?s almost like a multimedia theater experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33525]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have an inflatable dome. It?s almost like a multimedia theater experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33525</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/22753]]></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/22753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, is prayer in the deepest sense. This is essential prayer: uttered or unexpressed, it is equally prayer. It is the soul's desire after God going forth in a manifestation, ... the soul striving after God. This is a prayer that may exist without ceasing, consisting, as it does, not in doing or saying this or that, but in temper and attitude of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear;  Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear;  Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12685]]></link><description><![CDATA[No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing we're lacking when we get close to the end zone is toughness. We were in a position to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38343]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing we're lacking when we get close to the end zone is toughness. We were in a position to get back into the game in the third quarter and we turned the ball over. But I give Hillcrest a lot of credit they're a good team and have a lot of good players.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn't vote for the First ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47134]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn't vote for the First Amendment if it was up for a vote today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We rest on Thee, our shield and our defender! Thine is the battle, Thine shall be the praise; When passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We rest on Thee, our shield and our defender! Thine is the battle, Thine shall be the praise; When passing through the gates of pearly splendor, Victors, we rest with Thee, through endless days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there is a worm in the lonely wood, That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,  And makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51688]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there is a worm in the lonely wood, That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,  And makes it a sorrow to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/910]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/628]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't return a favor, pass it on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22007]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't return a favor, pass it on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises; Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises:  So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48006]]></link><description><![CDATA[When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises; Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises:  So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is reason grown courageous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is reason grown courageous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing to me that 16- and 17-year-olds are treated as adults no matter what. If we make a big enough presence and have enough people, maybe the General Assembly will listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. [Fr., Le premier pas, mon fils, que l'on fait dans le monde,  Est celui dont depend le reste de nos jours.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8818]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241]]></link><description><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They did the book design and layout and we did the production. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40559]]></link><description><![CDATA[They did the book design and layout and we did the production.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13729]]></link><description><![CDATA[False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the largest ever TV audience; the busiest Web site in the world; the largest ever online petition -- The Live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40849]]></link><description><![CDATA[the largest ever TV audience; the busiest Web site in the world; the largest ever online petition -- The Live 8 list; the largest ever text petition; the largest ever response to a TV show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66516</guid></item></channel></rss>