<?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[So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremendously ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34966]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many of us were single and young, there were no boundaries between work and home. It was a tremendously productive period for all of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of pain, two black crows flew out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only last night he felt deadly sick, and, after a great deal of pain, two black crows flew out of his mouth and took wing from the room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings are like stars--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16717]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36461]]></link><description><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flame is very near to smoke. [Lat., Flamma fumo est proxima.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flame is very near to smoke. [Lat., Flamma fumo est proxima.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46816]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bust patents for a living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36013]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bust patents for a living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great faith in our players and I've come away from the game more comfortable and confident than I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35968]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great faith in our players and I've come away from the game more comfortable and confident than I'd have been if I hadn't seen the match,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66276]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19918]]></link><description><![CDATA[At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The back-doore robs the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The back-doore robs the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We act as though comfort and luxury were the chiefrequirements of life, when all that we need to make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22385]]></link><description><![CDATA[We act as though comfort and luxury were the chiefrequirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is somethingto be enthusiastic about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna  Reducet in sedem vice.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7545]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42741]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of lingerie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of lingerie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears. [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina,  Si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant,   Gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn child here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got beat from the outside again. Three-pointers are killing us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got beat from the outside again. Three-pointers are killing us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was the one who was helping him out. But I guess he heard from somebody that I told Coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was the one who was helping him out. But I guess he heard from somebody that I told Coach not to play him in Game 3. It wasn't like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11077]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: people are friends in spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are going to continue to drink. They're going to continue to smoke. They're going to continue to gamble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32409]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are going to continue to drink. They're going to continue to smoke. They're going to continue to gamble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know they're not selling out. This is something they take very, very seriously, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42725]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know they're not selling out. This is something they take very, very seriously,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62477]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19611]]></link><description><![CDATA[My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63071]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that stand high have many blasts to shake them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51511]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Wherever there are three persons, even though they are laymen, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Wherever there are three persons, even though they are laymen, there is the church. Every man lives by his own faith, and God does not distinguish between classes. Since, in cases of necessity, you have the right to act as a priest, then you must also accept priestly discipline. It is God's will that all of us should be in the right spiritual state, at any time or place, to administer His sacraments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn your scars into stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn your scars into stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Subtlety set a trap and caught itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Subtlety set a trap and caught itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jennifer is an outstanding talent and has been part of a championship volleyball teams throughout her career. Her talent and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jennifer is an outstanding talent and has been part of a championship volleyball teams throughout her career. Her talent and winning experience will have an immediate impact for our program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All God wants of man is a peaceful heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64496]]></link><description><![CDATA[All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64496</guid></item></channel></rss>