<?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[If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53526]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The years teach much which the days never knew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62800]]></link><description><![CDATA[The years teach much which the days never knew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make a commencement requires a mental effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51203]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make a commencement requires a mental effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.  Things which in hungry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10126]]></link><description><![CDATA[And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain stews, and roast-meats, and pilaus.  Things which in hungry mortals' eyes find favour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26410]]></link><description><![CDATA[One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23644]]></link><description><![CDATA[So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,  And truth disclaiming both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,  And truth disclaiming both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, the itch, and a cough cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7461]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service -- just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea shops]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask God often whether it be His honour and pleasure to take them away from you; for without Him you can do nothing. If he takes them away, thank Him; but if He does not do that, you will bear it no more, however, as the defect of a sin, but as a great trial with which you are to gain merit and practice patience. You should be content, whether or not He accords you His gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The campaign was successful. Equal conditions were created for all candidates and that gives me hope the election will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The campaign was successful. Equal conditions were created for all candidates and that gives me hope the election will be democratic and transparent,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't wait, ... I'm just hoping that they'll see I'm not making this up. People need to be held ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't wait, ... I'm just hoping that they'll see I'm not making this up. People need to be held accountable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20368]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39589]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best policy is to declare victory and leave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best policy is to declare victory and leave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be faithful than famous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15049]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be faithful than famous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24939]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5800]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17223]]></link><description><![CDATA[A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scab'd horse cannot abide the comb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a classical guerrilla-type campaign. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38361]]></link><description><![CDATA[a classical guerrilla-type campaign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19003]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the real trouble comes when people continue 'holiday eating mode' after the holidays, ... Weigh Less, Live Longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41065]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the real trouble comes when people continue 'holiday eating mode' after the holidays, ... Weigh Less, Live Longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22429]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7109]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has called us to shine, just as much as Daniel was sent into Babylon to shine. Let no one say that he cannot shine because he has not so much influence as some others may have. What God wants you to do is to use the influence you have. Daniel probably did not have much influence down in Babylon at first, but God soon gave him more because he was faithful and used what he had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But where are the snows of yester year? [Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56721]]></link><description><![CDATA[But where are the snows of yester year? [Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ability, ... I want to sing and play so it has to be three chords. I can only do three chords and not look at the guitar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure when Chuck Schumer needs information from the Congressional Budget Office, he doesn't have to check with Harry Reid, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure when Chuck Schumer needs information from the Congressional Budget Office, he doesn't have to check with Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate leader. I expect to be calling Mr. Naughton directly as I always have in the past. If she wants to know what I'm doing, she can always call me. I'll be happy to respond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20691</guid></item></channel></rss>