<?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[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13089]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43243]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the fable tells us, that the wren mounted as high as the eagle, by getting upon his back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to think continentally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to think continentally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only got three dogs and two cats from Louisiana. All have been adopted. The first-hand experience we had with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33333]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only got three dogs and two cats from Louisiana. All have been adopted. The first-hand experience we had with these kitties is that they had been in cages for so long, we recommended the foster person to let them run and play. Both of the cats ran for two days straight. They were so active; they were a ball of energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54616]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michel Angelo! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michel Angelo!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no retracing our steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no retracing our steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to take care of this as soon as possible. We know that we messed up, and we want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40452]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to take care of this as soon as possible. We know that we messed up, and we want to move on. As of today, we will follow whatever the state guidelines are for off-season practice. As of today, you won't see us anywhere near a football until May 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who Thou art: Jesus, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who Thou art: Jesus, the feeble sinner's friend! Nor wilt Thou with the night depart, But stay and love me to the end. Thy mercies never shall remove; Thy nature and Thy name is Love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20963]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed  Was innocence for innocence; we knew not   The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed    That any did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredlythe idea, buried deep in our subconscious, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredlythe idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the pathto its fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We discussed about some of the issues that were still causing some controversy inside the UN membership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28927]]></link><description><![CDATA[We discussed about some of the issues that were still causing some controversy inside the UN membership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66782]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If health insurance was working properly, the sicker you are, the more protection you would have. It seems to be working backwards, the sicker you are, the more trouble you have paying bills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you had your life to live over again--you'd need more money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27780]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you had your life to live over again--you'd need more money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs 10:11).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15751]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot have the success without the failures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48226]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60152]]></link><description><![CDATA[What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are charms made only for distant admiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5781]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are charms made only for distant admiration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In your free time, you will choose who to hang out with. If you were to show me your friends, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41768]]></link><description><![CDATA[In your free time, you will choose who to hang out with. If you were to show me your friends, I could tell you your future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25776]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  If we ever are to attain to true Divine Peace, and be completely united ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  If we ever are to attain to true Divine Peace, and be completely united to God, all that is not absolutely necessary, either bodily or spiritually, must be cast off; everything that could interpose itself to an unlawful extent between us and Him, and lead us astray: for He alone will be Lord in our hearts, and none other; for Divine Love can admit of no rival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. [Lat., Virtute enim ipsa non tam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it. [Lat., Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse, quam videri volunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay the interest they will pay that interest to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us have not much time to lose [to begin loving]. Remember, once more, that this is a matter of life and death. I cannot help speaking urgently, for myself, for yourselves. "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." That is to say, it is the deliberate verdict of the Lord Jesus that it is better not to have lived than not to love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65393]]></link><description><![CDATA[All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you would expect it to fall; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14077]]></link><description><![CDATA[See how the mountain goat hangs from the summit of the cliff; you would expect it to fall; it is merely showing its contempt for the dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no glory in outstripping donkeys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15890]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings comeforth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are thereincarnation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings comeforth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are thereincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment anddisillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rageor anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are otherembodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing,not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects thequality of their relationships with others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22412]]></link><description><![CDATA[A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the state and local distribution plans that will define victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the state and local distribution plans that will define victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a source of dismay and consternation to all of us to figure out how they were really going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a source of dismay and consternation to all of us to figure out how they were really going to determine that,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25154</guid></item></channel></rss>