<?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[Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  When you hear someone saying unworthy and hard words of you, then it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  When you hear someone saying unworthy and hard words of you, then it is given to you to drink medicine for your soul from the cup of the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57866]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the former.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.   - Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.   - Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though "the commandments of God be not grievous", yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics nothing is contemptible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics nothing is contemptible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56003]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams, That, as I am a Christian faithful man, I would not spend another such a night, Though 't were to buy a world of happy days. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still believe America’s destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/313]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still believe America’s destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western waves. But thou, thyself, movest alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12056]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22194]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9503]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who willreally accomplish great things in life are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who willreally accomplish great things in life are those who are willing todiscipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, theirefficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they takeinto their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing interms of championship living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People make decisions that undermine their goals every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41565]]></link><description><![CDATA[People make decisions that undermine their goals every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Press not a falling man too far! -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Press not a falling man too far! -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give love, and love to your life will flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give love, and love to your life will flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay,  And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill,   While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will,    "Polly!--Polly!--The cows are in the corn!     Oh, where's Polly?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is engendered in the eyes; By gazing fed; and fancy dies  In the cradle where it lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is engendered in the eyes; By gazing fed; and fancy dies  In the cradle where it lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects. They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37552]]></link><description><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects. They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, and then this gets whacked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is laughing behind your back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is laughing behind your back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we win the next two games, we should be in the playoffs. If we go 1-1 against Tracy before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34670]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we win the next two games, we should be in the playoffs. If we go 1-1 against Tracy before finishing the regular season at Lincoln, its going to be real close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are not men and yet they stay alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are not men and yet they stay alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10155]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People now realize there are opportunities to move up in the department as a whole. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29278]]></link><description><![CDATA[People now realize there are opportunities to move up in the department as a whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58475]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're crazy not to recognize that Mike Vick is a great player. He's going to make plays. We just tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39663]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're crazy not to recognize that Mike Vick is a great player. He's going to make plays. We just tried to contain him as best as possible, but it's hard to contain someone so special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts,  Thou fount of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285  Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts,  Thou fount of life, thou Light of men,  From the best bliss that earth imparts  We turn unfilled to Thee again.  We taste Thee, O Thou living Bread,  And long to feast upon Thee still:  We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead,  And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.   O Jesus, ever with us stay,  Make all our moments calm and bright;  Chase the dark night of sin away,  Shed o'er the world Thy holy light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19261]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's interesting. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44448]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's interesting. I think we don't make things up. We just distill it to, hopefully, its most humorous nugget. And in that sense it seems faked and skewed just because we don't have to be subjective or pretend to be objective. We can just put it out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of human kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of human kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The singing man keepes his shop in his throate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24766]]></link><description><![CDATA[All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a real shock, and I felt bad for his wife and family. I've known his wife since we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30367]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a real shock, and I felt bad for his wife and family. I've known his wife since we were babies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10208]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31489</guid></item></channel></rss>