<?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[In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59041]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the theater the audience wants to be surprised but by things that they expect]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen  Of cataracts!" An angel who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44500]]></link><description><![CDATA["Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen  Of cataracts!" An angel who had been   O'er heaven and earth, spoke thus, his bright wings furled,    And knelt to Nature first, on the wild cliff unseen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56963]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23503]]></link><description><![CDATA[A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice. [Fr., Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur metier est de la differer; quelques uns savent leur devoir, et font leur metier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're in the minority. They're on the fringe and we need to keep them there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39499]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're in the minority. They're on the fringe and we need to keep them there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45601]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46816]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23176]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many diseases may be cured by abstinence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many diseases may be cured by abstinence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making copies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making copies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is truecourage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is truecourage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To simplify complications is the first essential of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/996]]></link><description><![CDATA[To simplify complications is the first essential of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12331]]></link><description><![CDATA[All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41807]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas are bankrupt, and that the party basically takes their loyalty for granted, ... Then the Republicans start coming around ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â and we're like the lonely girl standing against the wall at a dance. Even if you know it's lip service, you feel receptive, just because somebody has bothered to come over and pay attention to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do this real moron thing, it's called thinking, and I'm not a very good Amercian because I like to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do this real moron thing, it's called thinking, and I'm not a very good Amercian because I like to form my own opionions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This proposal here will send us back to the drawing board. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34019]]></link><description><![CDATA[This proposal here will send us back to the drawing board.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17715]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  Above all, desire to please Christ; dread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957  Above all, desire to please Christ; dread his disapproval above everything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care is the the actualization of love assumed. -Doc Childre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care is the the actualization of love assumed. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real estate is still a contact sport. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real estate is still a contact sport.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664    Do you think that the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says that His yoke is easy, His burden is light. People sometimes refuse to do God's work just because it is easy. This is sometimes because they cannot believe that easy work is His work; but there may be a very bad pride in it.   Some, again, accept it with half a heart and do it with half a hand. But however easy any work may be, it can not be well done without taking thought about it. And such people, instead of taking thought about their work, generally take thought about the morrow -- in which no work can be done, any more than in yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are one another's angels ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are one another's angels]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41719]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want you to catch every single ball. It's a tough city sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30328]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want you to catch every single ball. It's a tough city sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness -- today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Tomorrow, fallen into our own mire, we are dejected, but not humbled; we grieve, but it is only the grief of pride at the seeing our perfection not to be such as we had vainly imagined. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/95]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/95</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things can happen. We can make the playoffs and beat our cross-town rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things can happen. We can make the playoffs and beat our cross-town rivals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday Beginning a short series on forgiveness:   Turn your eyes full upon yourselves, and see if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday Beginning a short series on forgiveness:   Turn your eyes full upon yourselves, and see if you cannot discover the same fault [that you would judge in another] in yourselves, either in times past or now-a-days. And, if you find it, remember how that it is God's appointing that you shall now behold this sin in another, in order that you may be brought to acknowledge and repent of it; and amend your ways and pray for your brother, that God may grant him repentance and amendment according to His Divine Will. Thus a good heart draws amendment from the sins of others, and is guarded from all harsh judgment and wrath, and preserves an even temper; while an evil heart puts the worst interpretation on all that it sees, and turns it to its own hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47018</guid></item><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/13075]]></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/13075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19979</guid></item></channel></rss>