<?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[Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64643]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was really beautiful for Carlos and I think it was also important for his own moral that he got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40101]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was really beautiful for Carlos and I think it was also important for his own moral that he got to see himself in a situation where he was just as strong and perhaps even stronger than the other favorites. If there hadn't been that flat bit half way up the climb, I actually think he could have taken the stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of these guys are getting old, and they pee a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of these guys are getting old, and they pee a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54172]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60962]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune helps the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune helps the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we touch.I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we touch.I promise you love. Time will not take that away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theatre community has been so warm and welcoming to me. What better way to thank them then to co-host ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theatre community has been so warm and welcoming to me. What better way to thank them then to co-host this huge party presenting the best of what Broadway has to offer. And I'm thrilled to share the stage with John Lithgow, whose work I'm a huge fan of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the '60s, everyone tried to follow Pontiac's lead and put big engines in mid-sized cars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34888]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the '60s, everyone tried to follow Pontiac's lead and put big engines in mid-sized cars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14956]]></link><description><![CDATA[You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52834]]></link><description><![CDATA[To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59086]]></link><description><![CDATA[For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never follow the crowd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never follow the crowd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26580]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this rescue in West Virginia , I feel even more helpless because I'm here, and not doing much other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this rescue in West Virginia , I feel even more helpless because I'm here, and not doing much other than praying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61925]]></link><description><![CDATA[But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:  Some kick'd until they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow:  Some kick'd until they can feel whether   A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still have the nightmares. I see the same person who tortured me in my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41274]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still have the nightmares. I see the same person who tortured me in my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave,  With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave,  With here and there a violet bestrown,   Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave;    And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41089]]></link><description><![CDATA[He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies;  The fleecy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies;  The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare,   And shed their substance on the floating air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most dangerous moment comes with victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous moment comes with victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066  [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of God, could not efface a single sin.. That we ought, without anxiety, to expect the pardon of our sins from the blood of Jesus Christ, only endeavoring to love Him with all our hearts. That God seemed to have granted the greatest favors to the greatest sinners, as more signal monuments of His mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23082]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it's a snug little island! A right little, tight little island!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man of wisdom is the man of years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man of wisdom is the man of years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The still small voice is wanted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The still small voice is wanted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was just so mature about it. I use that same system for all my players now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was just so mature about it. I use that same system for all my players now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890   It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50593</guid></item><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[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44449]]></link><description><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44694]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens,  And other Members of the Court,   Manage the Babylonish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens,  And other Members of the Court,   Manage the Babylonish sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53472</guid></item></channel></rss>