<?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[My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28063]]></link><description><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold,  Translated to a vase of gold;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25097]]></link><description><![CDATA[But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold,  Translated to a vase of gold;   In burning throne though they keep still    Serenities unthawed and chill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yoga is difficult for the one whose mind is not subdued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a reward; it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment ; it is a result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a reward; it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment ; it is a result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57769]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have got to shoot, otherwise you can't score.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48176]]></link><description><![CDATA[To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fight fairly, and in good faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fight fairly, and in good faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66868]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as we change the first light bulb, they'll start saving money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34192]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as we change the first light bulb, they'll start saving money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a new system, but it is a lot like the system he ran with the Rams in the past. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30518]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a new system, but it is a lot like the system he ran with the Rams in the past. He's fit back into a system he knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our guards shot the ball pretty well tonight and I think they carried us, with Shawn being out of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our guards shot the ball pretty well tonight and I think they carried us, with Shawn being out of the starting lineup we had other guys step in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All day in the green sunny orchard When May was a marvel of bloom,  I followed the busy bee-lovers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2939]]></link><description><![CDATA[All day in the green sunny orchard When May was a marvel of bloom,  I followed the busy bee-lovers   Down path that were sweet with perfume.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. -Leon Trotsky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53716]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you're not at your best, but all that matters is two points. This was a perfect example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you're not at your best, but all that matters is two points. This was a perfect example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was lucky with my tire choices, but this afternoon I made a couple of mistakes. I'm trying to play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31709]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was lucky with my tire choices, but this afternoon I made a couple of mistakes. I'm trying to play it safe. Second is good, but I'm sure the others will be pushing hard tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Then are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ad astra [To the stars] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ad astra [To the stars]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   When law and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   When law and sin ceased to be distinguished in Israel, compassion induced Him to appoint judges again. If these are gifted with heroic qualities, to vanquish the oppressors of Israel, it is nevertheless not this heroism that forms their principal characteristic. That consists in judging. They restore... the authority of the law. For this reason, God raises up judges, not princes. The title sets forth both their work and the occasion of their appointment. Israel is free and powerful when its law is observed throughout the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26679]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But given the initiatives we've committed ourselves to, it's going to be very difficult, even if we get more money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38475]]></link><description><![CDATA[But given the initiatives we've committed ourselves to, it's going to be very difficult, even if we get more money than the county initially earmarked. The initial signs show we are getting a positive response. We'll see what the upshot is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43627]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the games we won on the road set a good tone for this club. They started to hit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41142]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the games we won on the road set a good tone for this club. They started to hit well during the end of the road trip and they carried that on tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16394]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64295]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience and tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience and tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41518]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61142]]></link><description><![CDATA[And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose — there is no such war in the history of the race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23694]]></link><description><![CDATA[He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63897]]></link><description><![CDATA[No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme;  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58977]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme;  Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull;   Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19898]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been told that we probably will not be able to get home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40061]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been told that we probably will not be able to get home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells!  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!   How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,    In the icy air of night,     While the stars that oversprinkle      All the Heavens seem to twinkle       With a crystalline delight:        Keeping time, time, time,         In a sort of Runic rhyme          To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells           From the bells, bells, bells, bells,            Bells, bells, bells--             From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55402]]></link><description><![CDATA[My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inertia of the human mind and its resistance to innovation are most clearly demonstrated not, as one might expect, by the ignorant mass- which is easily swayed once its imagination is caught- but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and in the monopoly of learning. Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse. The academic backwoodsmen have been the curse of genius from Aristarchus to Darwin and Freud; they stretch, a solid and hostile phalanx of pedantic mediocrities, across the centuries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50912</guid></item></channel></rss>