<?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[The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is taxation without legislation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is taxation without legislation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give no bounties:  make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give no bounties:  make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17662]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're staring record energy prices in the face every day, it seems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30657]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're staring record energy prices in the face every day, it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22070]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58371]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2717]]></link><description><![CDATA[A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58143]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! the bonny Christ-Church bells, One, two, three, four, five, six;  They sound so woundy great,   So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! the bonny Christ-Church bells, One, two, three, four, five, six;  They sound so woundy great,   So wound'rous sweet,    And they troul so merrily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of it is the seat-of-your-pants-type thing and a lot of faith and trust in people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38511]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of it is the seat-of-your-pants-type thing and a lot of faith and trust in people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58354]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr Watson lurched forward towards the knife. He walked into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr Watson lurched forward towards the knife. He walked into it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were solid the whole game on defense. We came out a little slow on offense, but the defense played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36079]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were solid the whole game on defense. We came out a little slow on offense, but the defense played well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8012]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; they put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a state of openness or trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a state of openness or trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel Brandon still has a chance to be a very good major league player. It was a question of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31651]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel Brandon still has a chance to be a very good major league player. It was a question of timing. His development and that of our team didn't align.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrogant powers intend to make countries local and national economy bankrupt in an attempt to make more benefits from establishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrogant powers intend to make countries local and national economy bankrupt in an attempt to make more benefits from establishing a big market]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65943]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heather tried a more difficult first pass on floor. It's a big risk, and it could have a big payoff. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heather tried a more difficult first pass on floor. It's a big risk, and it could have a big payoff. Unfortunately she fell in the meet even though she nailed it in warm-ups. But its good, she needs to make a statement if she wants to make nationals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:  His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,   For violent fires soon burn out themselves;    Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;     He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;      With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;       Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,        Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise does at once what the fool does at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise does at once what the fool does at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Beginning a series on the church:  The laity... living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107  Beginning a series on the church:  The laity... living in the world as an integral part of it, is the primary body through which the reality of the phrase "the Church is service" has to be manifested in all spheres of secular life: the Church has to show in her own life and attitude towards others the evidences of the redemptive order which is in Christ an operative fact: Christ the Lord is also Christ the servant: the Church which is the lord of all life is also the servant of all life, and the lordship is shown only through the service. The world wants to see redemption: it is not interested in being talked to about it. A church which is not outward looking... has ceased to be a church as the Body of Christ and has instead become a club for the benefit of its members.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout  Till you have drenched our steeples, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks. Rage, blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout  Till you have drenched our steeples, downed the cocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Americans were to make the effort to manage their weight using a variety of options, including better nutrition, more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41068]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Americans were to make the effort to manage their weight using a variety of options, including better nutrition, more exercise, approved medications or even surgical approaches, we would be rewarded with significantly better health,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ice does not in pain screamwhen in the sun he melts into streamnor does he in pain screamwhen he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ice does not in pain screamwhen in the sun he melts into streamnor does he in pain screamwhen he higher climbs into spiraling steam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand!  Amidst their tall ancestral trees,   O'er all the pleasant land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17086]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . So often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42788]]></link><description><![CDATA[A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing Cheapside.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing Cheapside.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21666]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66882]]></link><description><![CDATA[For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of concealment. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding something comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects which must not be touched, the bloom of life is gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw a lot of two-lane roads become four-lane roads. Back when I first started all the development on (Ga. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33762]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw a lot of two-lane roads become four-lane roads. Back when I first started all the development on (Ga. Highway) 124 had not occurred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33762</guid></item></channel></rss>