<?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[Martha had a very good time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martha had a very good time,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And maidens call it--Love in idleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51427]]></link><description><![CDATA[And maidens call it--Love in idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This past weekend we had a retreat with the board members and came up with a business plan to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41496]]></link><description><![CDATA[This past weekend we had a retreat with the board members and came up with a business plan to see where we are ... if we can move forward or have to close down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27293]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1331]]></link><description><![CDATA[No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated...to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth you'd probably be able to get a lot of free games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This guy is a bastard. He took advantage of my daughter, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37166]]></link><description><![CDATA[This guy is a bastard. He took advantage of my daughter,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the number of public hospitals continues to decline, the concern remains to what extent non-profit and for-profit hospitals are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33466]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the number of public hospitals continues to decline, the concern remains to what extent non-profit and for-profit hospitals are taking or will take on greater responsibilities as safety net providers, and to what degree their focus is on attracting the healthiest of Medicaid patients, leaving the sickest and costliest patients to the care of the remaining public or major safety net hospitals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24383]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8103]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy father's son, 'Tis something not yet from the darkness won. Oh, give me light to live with open eyes. Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26629]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17836]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been doing silly voices since I was a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29459]]></link><description><![CDATA[What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing voluntary restrictions by stations, ... They are limiting you with the amount you can fill up with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing voluntary restrictions by stations, ... They are limiting you with the amount you can fill up with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've become real Americans. They fit right into the mainstream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28626]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've become real Americans. They fit right into the mainstream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fish which has once felt the hook, suspects the crooked metal in every food which offers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fish which has once felt the hook, suspects the crooked metal in every food which offers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet,  Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet,  Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed!   So, I was afraid!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., Beneficium non in eo quot fit aut datur consistit sed in ipso dantis aut facientis animo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town develop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62361]]></link><description><![CDATA[H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43225]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a fragrant world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a fragrant world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a pedophile. You know that, ... I'm gonna look. He was feeding my habit. ... It's like crack. After ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a pedophile. You know that, ... I'm gonna look. He was feeding my habit. ... It's like crack. After you give them that one rock, you know he's gonna come back. He's hooked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48073]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on thehorizon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on thehorizon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56594]]></link><description><![CDATA[In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what isimpossible with talent is genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what isimpossible with talent is genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spots all night. It was easy for me to find them. And they were making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spots all night. It was easy for me to find them. And they were making shots. I feel I've become quicker and stronger -- mentally and physically -- to deal with the college basketball game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45021</guid></item></channel></rss>