<?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[These are material changes of the contract. We've won (that issue) twice already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37237]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are material changes of the contract. We've won (that issue) twice already.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think in generalities, but we live in detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65913]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think in generalities, but we live in detail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. [Fr., Dis moi ce que tu manges, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. [Fr., Dis moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying;  He hath gather'd up gold,   And now he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying;  He hath gather'd up gold,   And now he is dying;--    Old age, begin sighing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52636]]></link><description><![CDATA[To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John of the Cross, Mystic, Poet, Teacher, 1591   A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.   St. John of the Cross  December 15, 2000   Two thousand years of failure have not taught some reformers that you can't stop sin by declaring it illegal. Two thousand years have not taught them that you can't save a man's soul by force -- you can only lose your own in the attempt. Drunkenness and gambling and secularism and lechery -- various hopeful churchmen have earnestly tried to outlaw them all; and what is the result? A drunken nation, a gambling nation, a secularist nation, an adulterous nation. And, often, a ruined Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44574]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If 899 matches go out, the900th is enough to set the world aflame.(paraphrased from imperfectmemory of poster)http://www.vahini.org/downloads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22707]]></link><description><![CDATA[If 899 matches go out, the900th is enough to set the world aflame.(paraphrased from imperfectmemory of poster)http://www.vahini.org/downloads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8815]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves toget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves toget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 0-9, you've got a lot of flaws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29485]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 0-9, you've got a lot of flaws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your owndoorstep is unclean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your owndoorstep is unclean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheer up, children, I am all right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheer up, children, I am all right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands  With the fruitful grain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14924]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands  With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34236]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel we were proactive to prevent any potential problems, ... In 10 years, I've never seen anything like this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37073]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel we were proactive to prevent any potential problems, ... In 10 years, I've never seen anything like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  Use yourself then by degrees thus to worship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  Use yourself then by degrees thus to worship Him, to beg His grace, to offer Him your heart from time to time, in the midst of your business, even every moment if you can. Do not always scrupulously confine yourself to certain rules, or particular forms of devotion; but act with a general confidence in God, with love and humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56508]]></link><description><![CDATA[He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people play a fair game of golf - If you watch them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people play a fair game of golf - If you watch them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is what makes you smile when you're tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18607]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4908]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on;  'Twas not given for thee alone,   Pass it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on;  'Twas not given for thee alone,   Pass it on;    Let it travel down the years,     Let it wipe another's tears,      'Till in Heaven the deed appears--       Pass it on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16798]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well in the first half, but lost our composure in the second. We won the game, but we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well in the first half, but lost our composure in the second. We won the game, but we still have a lot of work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is friendship set on fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is friendship set on fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real. -Picasso. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real. -Picasso.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restive horses must be roughly dealt with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Restive horses must be roughly dealt with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All change, all production and generation are effected through the word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17236]]></link><description><![CDATA[All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1383]]></link><description><![CDATA[In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life throws you curve balls, but you either learn to swerve them or hit them like there is no tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life throws you curve balls, but you either learn to swerve them or hit them like there is no tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19472]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42933]]></link><description><![CDATA[As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42933</guid></item></channel></rss>