<?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 I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13053]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest ;man and to the gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9974]]></link><description><![CDATA[In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice does not descend from its pinnacle. [It., Cima di giudizio non s'avvalla.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice does not descend from its pinnacle. [It., Cima di giudizio non s'avvalla.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you cannot enforce, do not command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1485]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you cannot enforce, do not command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest God is the noblest work of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17702]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest God is the noblest work of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60032]]></link><description><![CDATA[These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All objects lose by too familiar a view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15140]]></link><description><![CDATA[All objects lose by too familiar a view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the girl next door. Her hair color is high-maintenance, but she's totally comfortable pulling it back, putting on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32073]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the girl next door. Her hair color is high-maintenance, but she's totally comfortable pulling it back, putting on a ball cap or beret as the all-American girl-on-the-go. She's totally sweet, fun loving ... she probably bakes cookies. Guaranteed, her cell phone rings off the hook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact we saw 10 percent of organizations freezing salaries was astronomical. It was a really unusual year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact we saw 10 percent of organizations freezing salaries was astronomical. It was a really unusual year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our joy is dead, and only smiles on us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,  And great hearts expand   And grow one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,  And great hearts expand   And grow one in the sense of this world's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American is the crucible of God. It is the melting pot where all the races are fusing and reforming . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45832]]></link><description><![CDATA[American is the crucible of God. It is the melting pot where all the races are fusing and reforming . . . these are the fires of God you've come to. . . . Into the crucible with you all. God is making the American.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witha person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe witha person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouringall right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that afaithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keepingand, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in the hand of God, Who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14361]]></link><description><![CDATA[This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thinking, 'Wow, I'm really in here,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thinking, 'Wow, I'm really in here,']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three weeks into the NFL season, it's hard to say which team is the best in the business, ... So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three weeks into the NFL season, it's hard to say which team is the best in the business, ... So far, I've got it narrowed down to Tampa Bay, Cincinnati and [the University of Southern California].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success in crime always invites to worse deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18000]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They saw a lack of planning in other major events recently in the U.S., so they wanted to get a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41449]]></link><description><![CDATA[They saw a lack of planning in other major events recently in the U.S., so they wanted to get a step ahead of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started off bad and never recovered. I thought we may have taken a step back tonight. We just didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35460]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started off bad and never recovered. I thought we may have taken a step back tonight. We just didn't play well, and it showed early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  If it be the earnest desire and longing of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  If it be the earnest desire and longing of your heart to be merciful as He is merciful; to be full of His unwearied patience, to dwell in His unalterable meekness; if you long to be like Him in universal, impartial love; if you desire to communicate every good to every creature that you are able; if you love and practice everything that is good, righteous, and lovely for its own sake, because it is good, righteous, and lovely; and resist no evil but with goodness; then you have the utmost certainty that the Spirit of God dwells and governs in you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/978]]></link><description><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true;  He only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true;  He only earns his freedom and existence   Who daily conquers them anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Houston home market has never been in better shape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Houston home market has never been in better shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With five minutes to go at a timeout, I looked down and everybody was gasping for air. But our goal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42160]]></link><description><![CDATA[With five minutes to go at a timeout, I looked down and everybody was gasping for air. But our goal ever since we got here was to go to Salem. We were five minutes away. We can be tired all next week.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18104]]></link><description><![CDATA[LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.-Henry David Thoreau-.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line,  Beneath whose awful Hand we hold  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16474]]></link><description><![CDATA[God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line,  Beneath whose awful Hand we hold   Dominion over palm and pine--    Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,     Lest we forget--lest we forget!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16474</guid></item></channel></rss>