<?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[Stay busy and take care of your own business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay busy and take care of your own business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a definite softening. Oil prices are starting to hit the middle-income consumer. It's a psychological thing. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a definite softening. Oil prices are starting to hit the middle-income consumer. It's a psychological thing. They read about it every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,models deposed, tree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21323]]></link><description><![CDATA[If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it followthat electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged,models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. When I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is just like a guy playing an instrument; it's something to look forward to the next day. When I was painting in Dixon, I was out of the place . . . and I made some money selling paintings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills their law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:   Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all smallstuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two rules to follow: 1) Don't sweat the small stuff. 2) It's all smallstuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not supply gas to the national grid until the government settles our bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30569]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not supply gas to the national grid until the government settles our bills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   In his experience of God, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   In his experience of God, a Christian has a strong sense of his individuality, never of his unity with God. Expressed more sharply, he has a strong sense of the Creator-creature distinction, never of merging or absorption. Or, to put it more sharply still, a Christian has a sense of his moral sin and not just of his metaphysical smallness in the face of the beyond. The dilemma for man is not who he is but what he has done. His predicament is not that he is small, but that he is sinful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones represent the 20th Century's escalation of imaginary need. We didn't need cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter is a smart player. He can read the play and he doesn't have to run from one corner to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peter is a smart player. He can read the play and he doesn't have to run from one corner to the other. He always seems to be in good position. He's a guy who would rather pass than shoot. He's done exactly what I thought he would.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is always there but the pockets change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is always there but the pockets change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside Jesus, the whole lot of us are so contemptible... But God is like Jesus, and like Jesus, He will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside Jesus, the whole lot of us are so contemptible... But God is like Jesus, and like Jesus, He will not give up until we, too, are like Jesus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25802]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64152]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stone that the builder refused, will always be the head cornerstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stone that the builder refused, will always be the head cornerstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. [Lat., Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He follows his father, but with shorter strides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51800]]></link><description><![CDATA[He follows his father, but with shorter strides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the baby dies, On every side  Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.   The baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3637]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the baby dies, On every side  Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.   The baby was not wrapped in any shroud.    The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed     That men's eyes might not see      Her misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, but you're gonna win if you just hang in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has been down on our running game since (star Marcus Green graduated). We went out to prove a point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has been down on our running game since (star Marcus Green graduated). We went out to prove a point tonight, and I think we did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said if you need to get your people out, you have to do it yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36334]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said if you need to get your people out, you have to do it yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[just cause? just cause because we're outlaws ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18305]]></link><description><![CDATA[just cause? just cause because we're outlaws]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth. Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten. Birds call to one another. Bees are already at work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3474]]></link><description><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every Art it is good to have a master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49537]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every Art it is good to have a master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48633]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.  Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11310]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  True progress is not found in breaking away from the old ways, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  True progress is not found in breaking away from the old ways, but in abiding in the teaching of Christ and His Spirit in the Church. There is an apparent contradiction here, for how can we abide, and yet advance? It is a paradox, like much else in scripture; but Christian experience proves it true. Those make the best progress in religion who hold fast by the faith once for all delivered to the saints, and not those who drift away from their moorings, rudderless upon a sea of doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7103</guid></item></channel></rss>