<?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[I'm very fond of water: It ever must delight  Each mother's son and daughter,--   When qualified aright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very fond of water: It ever must delight  Each mother's son and daughter,--   When qualified aright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience means self-suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience means self-suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hobby is only fun if you do not have time to do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19566]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hobby is only fun if you do not have time to do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23694]]></link><description><![CDATA[He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels uncomfortable. It is uneasy. We're not used to this situation in the market. But, after all, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels uncomfortable. It is uneasy. We're not used to this situation in the market. But, after all, this is the much-awaited correction that many people have been looking for in recent years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimumstrategies and repeating them until they become habits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimumstrategies and repeating them until they become habits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is like an endless sea. We can't know everything in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is like an endless sea. We can't know everything in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20908]]></link><description><![CDATA[He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm concentrating on our first game right now. I really haven't thought about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36081]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm concentrating on our first game right now. I really haven't thought about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over her hung a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold,  But of a substance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over her hung a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold,  But of a substance, though not animate,   Yet of a heavenly and spiritual mould,    That only eyes of spirits might behold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness, we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how to live without immediate hopes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to believe in yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64113]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to believe in yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  If the wounds of millions are to be healed, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  If the wounds of millions are to be healed, what other way is there except through forgiveness? Jesus, at least, leaves us no alternative. The command is stern. The terms are set: "But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause waits on success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause waits on success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20732]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not,  Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear   Your favors nor your hate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A president's hardest task is not to do what is right but to know what is right]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. Youmust set yourself on fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62744]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems -- the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6345]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems -- the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65924]]></link><description><![CDATA[If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4903]]></link><description><![CDATA[But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy  To inlay heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy  To inlay heaven with stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone needs to be asking the questions. How many lives do we have to lose? How many trucks are going over these overheads over the highways, and what can we do?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so brilliant, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Les Miserables. I never read the book before, but when I read this script it was so outstanding, so brilliant, I wanted to make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27566]]></link><description><![CDATA[An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26721]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies   That keep her from her rest.    (Macbeth:) Cure her of that!     Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,      Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow,       Raze out the written troubles of the brain,        And with some sweet oblivious antidote         Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff          Which weighs upon the heart?           (Doctor:) Therein the patient            Must minister to himself.             (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4385]]></link><description><![CDATA[While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61545]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49042]]></link><description><![CDATA[A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward only threatens when he is safe. [Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward only threatens when he is safe. [Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see them here is a dream come true. Los Angeles has been my hometown for so long, so to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41575]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see them here is a dream come true. Los Angeles has been my hometown for so long, so to have them here is beyond words. I'm going to come here very often and bring friends to see them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge:  All is, I never drink no sperit,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge:  All is, I never drink no sperit,   Nor I haint never signed no pledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion is the basis of all morality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion is the basis of all morality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2555</guid></item></channel></rss>