<?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 best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60176]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61560]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every marriage then is best in tune, When that the wife is May, the husband June. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26628]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every marriage then is best in tune, When that the wife is May, the husband June.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1226]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1141]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58205]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32505]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory and defeat are each of the same price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory and defeat are each of the same price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26368]]></link><description><![CDATA[March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was probably the first time I've been totally impressed, 100 percent. We wrestled the toughest competition -- top-ranked wrestlers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28357]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was probably the first time I've been totally impressed, 100 percent. We wrestled the toughest competition -- top-ranked wrestlers -- and just went after it. They all beat top-ranked wrestlers whether they placed in the tournament or not. And to come out with a third place trophy and missing two of our guns, man, that's unbelievable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty has a lot to do with character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty has a lot to do with character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430   None can become fit for the future life, who hath not practiced himself for it now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better bend than break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better bend than break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52039]]></link><description><![CDATA[You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23329]]></link><description><![CDATA[The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair,  His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head,   His eyes on his dusty table, with different documents spread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way,  Should flow, like waters after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10087]]></link><description><![CDATA[But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way,  Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,   Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24994]]></link><description><![CDATA[All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4802]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a kingly act to help the fallen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50735]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a kingly act to help the fallen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   Almighty God, have mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   Almighty God, have mercy on N and N and on all that bear me ill will, and would me harm, and on their faults and mine together; and by such easy, tender, merciful means as Thine infinite wisdom best can divine, vouchsafe to amend and redress; and make us saved souls together in heaven where we may ever live and love together with Thee and Thy blessed saints, O glorious Trinity, for the bitter passion of our sweet saviour Christ, amen.   ... ascribed to Sir Thomas More  July 7, 2002   O God, the strength of all those who put their trust in thee; mercifully accept our prayers; and because, through the weakness of our mortal nature, we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping thy commandments we may please thee, both in will and deed; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.   ... Collect for the first Sunday after Trinity, The Book of Common Prayer [1928]  July 8, 2002   Happily for us, the fundamental Christian message concerns not what we ought to do, but what God has done and what God is willing to do. In fellowship with Him and with others who are likewise trying to be like Him, we can be lifted up above our native possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jake is a 100-yard threat running the ball, he's a good thrower and he has a great understanding of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jake is a 100-yard threat running the ball, he's a good thrower and he has a great understanding of our offense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31884</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[I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48067]]></link><description><![CDATA[I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young Apollo, golden haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,  Magnificently unprepared   For the long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young Apollo, golden haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,  Magnificently unprepared   For the long littleness of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48608]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere we lived before used 911. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere we lived before used 911.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dinner lubricates business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dinner lubricates business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2877</guid></item></channel></rss>