<?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[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will definitely look at it through our office of seafood and determine whether there is something that requires further ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32903]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will definitely look at it through our office of seafood and determine whether there is something that requires further pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through snow covered forests of spirited dreamsnourished to life by crystalline streams.Jan of  http://jsmagic.net/emissary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through snow covered forests of spirited dreamsnourished to life by crystalline streams.Jan of  http://jsmagic.net/emissary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a new birth for Iraq, a free Iraq. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34810]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a new birth for Iraq, a free Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. -Vaclav Havel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is our business. It is what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is our business. It is what we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17074]]></link><description><![CDATA[For tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59488]]></link><description><![CDATA[You play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5254]]></link><description><![CDATA[You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curtesie on one side only lasts not long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live an idle burden to the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20335]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live an idle burden to the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene,  With armes full strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44720]]></link><description><![CDATA[There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene,  With armes full strong and largely displayed,   But of their leaves they were disarayde    The bodie bigge, and mightely pight,     Thoroughly rooted, and of wond'rous hight;      Whilome had bene the king of the field,       And mochell mast to the husband did yielde,        And with his nuts larded many swine:         But now the gray mosse marred his rine;          His bared boughes were beaten with stormes,           His toppe was bald, and wasted with wormes,            His honour decayed, his brauches sere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no wisdom like frankness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5212]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no wisdom like frankness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- seeking profile that you need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the winners decide what were war crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the winners decide what were war crimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't need to reiterate the outrage and disgust with which we watched these events in New Orleans unfolding, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't need to reiterate the outrage and disgust with which we watched these events in New Orleans unfolding,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword; but not so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59472]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword; but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York;  And all the clouds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York;  And all the clouds that lowered upon our house   In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You make a winner when you win. I think we can have a good crack for the next two months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30068]]></link><description><![CDATA[You make a winner when you win. I think we can have a good crack for the next two months and for the next 10 years, too, maybe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29763]]></link><description><![CDATA[If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Shape of Things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Shape of Things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The money was set aside for us, but the stipulation was that we had to hold a referendum first. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The money was set aside for us, but the stipulation was that we had to hold a referendum first. If we didn't act now, we'd lose the money because the SCC would be entitled to give it to another school district with a successful referendum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't think that, as proposed, this is a workable approach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't think that, as proposed, this is a workable approach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24612]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the cornerstone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the cornerstone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20791]]></link><description><![CDATA[...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovers face to face, friends side by side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lovers face to face, friends side by side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go to the new election, we voted for the Sunni list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now. Those who leave the county should go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now. Those who leave the county should go north and east, such as to Hattiesburg, Laurel or Meridian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55136</guid></item></channel></rss>