<?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[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7647]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously, or at any rate too anxiously. Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain idea that every man is bound to be a critic of life, and to let no day pass without finding some fault with the general order of things, or projecting some plan for its general improvement. And the other half comes from the greedy notion that a man's life does consist, after all, in the abundance of things that he possesseth, and that it is, somehow or other, more respectable and pious to be always at work trying to make a larger living, than it is to lie on your back in the green pastures and beside the still waters, and thank God that you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51630]]></link><description><![CDATA[That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best soldier does not attack. The superior fightersucceeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle.The most successful manager ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best soldier does not attack. The superior fightersucceeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle.The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligentnonaggressiveness. This is called the mastery of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big thieves hang the little ones]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing!  Thy dower is thy carolling;   Thou hast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing!  Thy dower is thy carolling;   Thou hast not far to seek    Thy bread, nor needest wine     To make thy utterance divine;      Thou art canopied and clothed       And unto Song bethrothed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm hoping he will play more minutes on Friday but there are aspects to his game that you won't see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm hoping he will play more minutes on Friday but there are aspects to his game that you won't see for about six weeks. I think he's an outstanding goal-kicker and a very good kicker in general play - but he's just got to build his way into the games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never in my life have I ever been accused of not talking. Dan and I both ad lib. Neither one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never in my life have I ever been accused of not talking. Dan and I both ad lib. Neither one of us can keep our mouth shut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - My Summer in a Garden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum;  True patriots ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45763]]></link><description><![CDATA[From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum;  True patriots all; for be it understood   We left our country for our country's good.    No private views disgraced our generous zeal,     What urged our travels was our country's weal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're certainly not celebrating her. We're repudiating her on International Women's Day. That's a slap on her. You cannot celebrate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31113]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're certainly not celebrating her. We're repudiating her on International Women's Day. That's a slap on her. You cannot celebrate women's rights and welfare and the struggle to liberate women without denouncing this particular woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't characterize the recess, but a recess in collective bargaining is not rare and is often called for various ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't characterize the recess, but a recess in collective bargaining is not rare and is often called for various reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16096]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the light bulb is beginning to flicker, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29381]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the light bulb is beginning to flicker,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lake has gotten a little better. Now it has seasons. Sometimes it's green, sometimes it's red and sometimes it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lake has gotten a little better. Now it has seasons. Sometimes it's green, sometimes it's red and sometimes it's brown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can only change the world by changing men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can only change the world by changing men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath one hogge makes him fat, and hee that hath one son makes him a foole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  Let men in whose hearts are the ways of God seriously consider the use that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  Let men in whose hearts are the ways of God seriously consider the use that hath been made, under the blessing of God, of the conscientious observation of the Lord's day, in the past and present ages, unto the promotion of holiness, righteousness, and religion universally, in the power of it; and if they are not under invincible prejudices, it will be very difficult for them to judge that it is a plant which our heavenly Father hath not planted. For my part, I must not only say, but plead whilst I live in this world, and leave this testimony to the present and future ages, if these papers see the light and do survive, that if I have ever seen any thing in the ways and worship of God wherein the power of religion or godliness hath been expressed, any thing that hath represented the holiness of the gospel and the Author of it, any thing that hath looked like a preludium unto the everlasting Sabbath and rest with God, which we aim through grace to come unto, it hath been there and with them where and amongst whom the Lord's day hath been had in highest esteem, and a strict observation of it attended unto, as an ordinance of our Lord Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our favourite holding period is forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our favourite holding period is forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709  The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to wine: things are precious before they are contributory. It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good; but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own natural goodness; He has no use for it, only delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2261]]></link><description><![CDATA[When fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever beenaccomplished without enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21948]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever beenaccomplished without enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After Death the Doctor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49092]]></link><description><![CDATA[After Death the Doctor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come inwhen deep down inside they know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come inwhen deep down inside they know it has never left port.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11470]]></link><description><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45510]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62031]]></link><description><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are Lilies fair, The flower of virgin light;  Nature held us forth, and said,   "Lo! my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25086]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are Lilies fair, The flower of virgin light;  Nature held us forth, and said,   "Lo! my thoughts of white."   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My thoughts ran a wool-gathering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59207]]></link><description><![CDATA[My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone needs to stop saying 'I'm a Republican' or 'I'm a Democrat' and just be good Christians. But don't worry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone needs to stop saying 'I'm a Republican' or 'I'm a Democrat' and just be good Christians. But don't worry, the Gulf Coast is going to be rebuilt, and it's going to be great. God works in mysterious ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, 'Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under "D".']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Wilson's cousins, Michael Allen and Johnny Allen, live in an apartment upstairs from him and are among five evacuees who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42413]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Wilson's cousins, Michael Allen and Johnny Allen, live in an apartment upstairs from him and are among five evacuees who have enrolled in classes at the University of Texas at El Paso.] I didn't want to lose out on a whole semester, ... They made it real easy for us to enroll in school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66059]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66059</guid></item></channel></rss>