<?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[Acorns were good till bread was found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acorns were good till bread was found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5591]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one, the fish will be found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one, the fish will be found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28172]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with all the new shops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women prefer emotions to reasoning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women prefer emotions to reasoning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear, That things ill got had ever bad success? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51322]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear, That things ill got had ever bad success?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."  "The question is," said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62027]]></link><description><![CDATA["The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."  "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  You, too, are called to be an open letter, as Paul puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750  You, too, are called to be an open letter, as Paul puts it, written by Christ's own hand, showing those round about you what things Christ can do. We are to go into the world and so to live our ordinary lives that, all unconsciously to us, those among whom we move will look at us again, and will begin to say, You know I used to doubt if there was much in Christianity save talk. But I have revised my opinion. There's So-and-so (that's you, you understand), that is a man in whom the thing is obviously working out. He used to be so touchy, so opinionative, so mean and shabby in his views, so dully ordinary. Yet now, undoubtedly, the man has won to self-control and a large generous mind, and -- yea, I know it's a queer thing to say -- but he has won to something more, something that somehow (though he never speaks about those things) makes you remember Jesus Christ!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modesty's a candle to thy merit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modesty's a candle to thy merit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23399]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of fashion is . . . the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wind is against you then start sailing against it because the wind may never change in your favor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45113]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wind is against you then start sailing against it because the wind may never change in your favor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5011]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41469]]></link><description><![CDATA[At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fifty-four forty, or fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifty-four forty, or fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  Covetousness, pride, and envy are not three different things, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  Covetousness, pride, and envy are not three different things, but only three different names for the restless workings of one and the same will or desire. Wrath, which is a fourth birth from these three, can have no existence till one or all of these three are contradicted, or have something done to them that is contrary to their will. These four properties generate their own torment. They have no outward cause, nor any inward power of altering themselves. And therefore all self or nature must be in this state until some supernatural good comes into it, or gets a birth in it. Whilst man indeed lives among the vanities of time, his covetousness, envy, pride, and wrath may be in a tolerable state, may hold him to a mixture of peace and trouble; they may have at times their gratifications as well as their torments. But when death has put an end to the vanity of all earthly cheats, the soul that is not born again of the Supernatural Word and Spirit of God, must find itself unavoidably devoured and shut up in its own insatiable, unchangeable, self-tormenting covetousness, envy, pride, and wrath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27771]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40347]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair;  And they, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair;  And they, that lovely face who view,   They should not ask if truth be there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want the assurance from the government that my community will be safeguarded and they will be safe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want the assurance from the government that my community will be safeguarded and they will be safe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11505]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and dedication to what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29062]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and dedication to what you are doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act honestly, and answer boldly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act honestly, and answer boldly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In countries where DTH pay-TV has been available for over five years, as in North America and Europe, the market ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42645]]></link><description><![CDATA[In countries where DTH pay-TV has been available for over five years, as in North America and Europe, the market is mature and subscriber growth is slowing. Where DTH pay-TV platforms were launched after 2000, subscriber growth rates are higher. In India, for example, DTH pay-TV subscribers are expected to have tripled in 2005.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    In questions of this sort there are two things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46535]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48316]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is human, to forgive, divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16515]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is human, to forgive, divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived…. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53367]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived….]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law and order is now a big issue, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law and order is now a big issue,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41764</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></channel></rss>