<?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[Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first meeting was designed by the Birmingham Regional Planning Commission to judge what we saw as strengths and weaknesses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first meeting was designed by the Birmingham Regional Planning Commission to judge what we saw as strengths and weaknesses in the town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From little spark may burst a mighty flame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54045]]></link><description><![CDATA[From little spark may burst a mighty flame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast,  Nor yet within the common soil  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43039]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast,  Nor yet within the common soil   Lay down the wreck of power to rest,    Where man can boast that he has trod     On him that was "the scourge of God."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, stemming from Johannite monasticism, than one of its most recent examples, Father de Foucauld. If he went out to the Ahaggar plateau, it was not only to find but also to proclaim God, thereby teaching the gospel in a way which desert people could understand. After his death, the example set by this hermit was followed by others who, far from settling in the desert places of the Sahara, set out to mingle with the peopled deserts of the great cities, there to preach the gospel by their example and their very presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wyclif, Reformer, 1384  All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wyclif, Reformer, 1384  All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,  And he that stands upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19172]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,  And he that stands upon a slippery place   Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know we still can get a lot better. We all hope our best basketball is yet to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know we still can get a lot better. We all hope our best basketball is yet to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waubay is the only team we never full-court pressed this year. Otherwise, we get teams to have 25 to 30 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waubay is the only team we never full-court pressed this year. Otherwise, we get teams to have 25 to 30 turnovers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55661]]></link><description><![CDATA[It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't take a well-tanned person seriously ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't take a well-tanned person seriously]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5596]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been an awesome experience, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been an awesome experience,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50302]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5759]]></link><description><![CDATA["Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could pitch in the big leagues with this stuff, but it's not worth it to go down and hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could pitch in the big leagues with this stuff, but it's not worth it to go down and hope somebody would want me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. - The Uses of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2970]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -Robert Frost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5054</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[I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry a widdow before she leave mourning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2269]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do two things at once is to do neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18790]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do two things at once is to do neither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29528]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you fall , you damagewhen you fall in love with somebody your love for them stays with you foreverif ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25871]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you fall , you damagewhen you fall in love with somebody your love for them stays with you foreverif you fall out of love, you where never really in loveonce you fall, you can't fall out of it, you only fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23441]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone 's letter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all who wander are lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all who wander are lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Fatherland no danger thine, Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine!  [Ger., Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Fatherland no danger thine, Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine!  [Ger., Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein,   Fest steht und treu die Wacht am Rhein!]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them to be called mine, I will send you my verses gratis; if you wish them to be called yours, pray buy them, that they may be mine no longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us take to our hearts a lesson-- No lesson could braver be--  From the ways of the tapestry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us take to our hearts a lesson-- No lesson could braver be--  From the ways of the tapestry weavers   On the other side of the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62091</guid></item></channel></rss>