<?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[To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15635]]></link><description><![CDATA[To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52234]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51551]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her actions over the years have served to diminish the power of the legislature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her actions over the years have served to diminish the power of the legislature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13934]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we had a chance despite what I thought was one of the most uninspiring performances by my team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we had a chance despite what I thought was one of the most uninspiring performances by my team since I've been the head coach here. But of course, the two things that have hurt us all season, turnovers and poor shooting percentage, cost us at the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The teachings of elegant sayings should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The teachings of elegant sayings should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, any price will be paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me play the fool; With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me play the fool; With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66637]]></link><description><![CDATA[After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day. The Afghans will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37523]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very confident that those extremists will also fail to disrupt and derail voting day. The Afghans will not let anyone stop them from participating in this election.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2232]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24374]]></link><description><![CDATA[God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person -- a mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6205]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person -- a mind who thinks, a heart who feels, a will who acts, whose best name is Father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please provide the date of your death. (From An IRS Letter) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please provide the date of your death. (From An IRS Letter)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60607]]></link><description><![CDATA[As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47645]]></link><description><![CDATA[...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dress does not give knowledge. [Sp., La ropa no da ciencia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dress does not give knowledge. [Sp., La ropa no da ciencia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a job's worth doing, it's too hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18730]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46055]]></link><description><![CDATA[People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're staring record energy prices in the face every day, it seems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30657]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're staring record energy prices in the face every day, it seems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret Lee Runbeck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret Lee Runbeck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughsto forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughsto forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Masters AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little foodand too much work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Masters AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little foodand too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released fromhis present service and provided with another master. Jupiter,after warning him that he would repent his request, caused him tobe sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, finding that he hadheavier loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, hepetitioned for another change of master. Jupiter, telling himthat it would be the last time that he could grant his request,ordained that he be sold to a tanner. The Ass found that he hadfallen into worse hands, and noting his master's occupation,said, groaning: It would have been better for me to have beeneither starved by the one, or to have been overworked by theother of my former masters, than to have been bought by mypresent owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, andmake me useful to him.He that finds discontentment in one place is not likely to find happiness in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Body of Christ if they labor to be the body of Christ; and they become the body of Christ if they study to live by the Spirit of Christ: for that which lives by the Spirit of Christ is the body of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A buddy of mine, [Atlanta rookie] Jeff Francoeur, when he hit his first home run, I saw them give him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30634]]></link><description><![CDATA[A buddy of mine, [Atlanta rookie] Jeff Francoeur, when he hit his first home run, I saw them give him the silent treatment and ignore him. I had an idea that it might be coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never takechances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21978]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never takechances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the bond of perfection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the bond of perfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50472]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is near and our mutual company is short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is near and our mutual company is short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11780]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw you into a panic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell you it's a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell you it's a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1120]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without music, life would be a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without music, life would be a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52259]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up here in the north country (areas with high levels of snow), we'd like to see 10 percent more deer, in the middle snow fall zone we could have up to 50 percent more deer, and in southern areas where we have a lot of agriculture in the landscape, perhaps around 15 percent fewer deer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really very special because it's the first class. I think this is very important for the sport of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38785]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really very special because it's the first class. I think this is very important for the sport of college baseball, and important for their respective universities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do make really good pets just because they're affectionate and playful and they honestly don't take a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39514]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do make really good pets just because they're affectionate and playful and they honestly don't take a lot of care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1790]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1790</guid></item></channel></rss>