<?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[A college joke to cure the dumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23245]]></link><description><![CDATA[A college joke to cure the dumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gave me an opportunity to play. It helped me grow as a player, every year I played there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29240]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gave me an opportunity to play. It helped me grow as a player, every year I played there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11410]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, far, better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39550]]></link><description><![CDATA[People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew;  And whom the curious painter doth pursue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew;  And whom the curious painter doth pursue   Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks,    And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17867]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, it's the farm's pickup, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, it's the farm's pickup,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RIM is already seeing a lot of competition from rivals like Microsoft and Palm . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30416]]></link><description><![CDATA[RIM is already seeing a lot of competition from rivals like Microsoft and Palm .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The olive tree isthe altar of Allah.On it Allah has placedolives free for all. May Allah allow noneto alter His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The olive tree isthe altar of Allah.On it Allah has placedolives free for all. May Allah allow noneto alter His altars.In protecting treesmay no one falter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52501]]></link><description><![CDATA[All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that fee does not pass, we have no choice but to make drastic cuts, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31960]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that fee does not pass, we have no choice but to make drastic cuts,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13190]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazingly, given that this was a very intense fire and a large fire and that you're talking about senior citizens, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amazingly, given that this was a very intense fire and a large fire and that you're talking about senior citizens, everyone self-evacuated except for one woman the police escorted out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things well fitted abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things well fitted abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great mass of people will more easily fall victems to a big lie than to a small one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26162]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great mass of people will more easily fall victems to a big lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The female of the species is more deadly than the male. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The female of the species is more deadly than the male.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those first seven 3-point shots were basically the ball game. We had to fight our best just to get back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those first seven 3-point shots were basically the ball game. We had to fight our best just to get back in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Womack) could pull those single-wides off and put two nice double-wides on that property without even coming before this board, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33790]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Womack) could pull those single-wides off and put two nice double-wides on that property without even coming before this board,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness is also a kind of defence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness is also a kind of defence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit,  While still too wide or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22829]]></link><description><![CDATA[But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit,  While still too wide or short in human wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51265]]></link><description><![CDATA[With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er  The devil himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial "we."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we do know the sweet Roman hand. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we do know the sweet Roman hand. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe he was making weekly trips to Mexico for the specific purpose of buying heroin -- up to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe he was making weekly trips to Mexico for the specific purpose of buying heroin -- up to a pound at a time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a lot of confidence coming in. I told them to treat it like a championship but to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a lot of confidence coming in. I told them to treat it like a championship but to have fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   "He cannot deny Himself" [II Tim. 2:13], means at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   "He cannot deny Himself" [II Tim. 2:13], means at the same time He cannot deny His grace to the sinful, and He cannot deny the moral order in which alone He can live in fellowship with men; and we see the inviolableness of both asserted in the death of Jesus. Nothing else in the world demonstrates how real is God's love to the sinful, and how real the sin of the world is to God. And the love which comes to us through such an expression, bearing sin in all its reality, yet loving us through and beyond it, is the only love which at once forgives and regenerates the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have... the Gospel written upon vellum; it deserveth to be set with diamonds, except that the heart of man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8434]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have... the Gospel written upon vellum; it deserveth to be set with diamonds, except that the heart of man were a fitter repository for it.  ... The Colloquies of Erasmus  February 13, 1999  Faith is the source of energy in the struggle of life, but life still remains a battle which is continually renewed upon ever-new fronts. For every threatening abyss that is closed, another yawning gulf appears. The truth is -- and this is the conclusion of the whole matter -- the Kingdom of God is within us. But we must let our light shine before men in confident and untiring labor that they may see our good works and praise our Father in Heaven. The final ends of all humanity are hidden within His hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did what pitchers do when they're successful. He moved the fastball in and out, he kept his pitches down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30461]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did what pitchers do when they're successful. He moved the fastball in and out, he kept his pitches down for the most part, and he got away with mistakes when they were up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2450]]></link><description><![CDATA[" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48706]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48706</guid></item></channel></rss>