<?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[I'm thrilled. I personally hope that this is just the tip of the iceberg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32391]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm thrilled. I personally hope that this is just the tip of the iceberg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63427]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29857]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2897]]></link><description><![CDATA[My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control!  O for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58264]]></link><description><![CDATA[O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for an iceberg or two at control!  O for a vale that at midday the dew cumbers!   O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64854]]></link><description><![CDATA[All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48346]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end, everything is a gag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20059]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end, everything is a gag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hesitated to do it last year, but finally decided we need to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hesitated to do it last year, but finally decided we need to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are scared of technology ... And children to learn in various ways, and for some children this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are scared of technology ... And children to learn in various ways, and for some children this is a really good way, a good tool to be able to access information and learn from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45785]]></link><description><![CDATA[One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's weird...you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13792]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's weird...you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more second...just so it can hurt a little more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How his eyes languish! how his thoughts adore That painted coat, which Joseph never wore!  He shows, on holidays, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2772]]></link><description><![CDATA[How his eyes languish! how his thoughts adore That painted coat, which Joseph never wore!  He shows, on holidays, a sacred pin,   That touch'd the ruff, that touched Queen Bess' chin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The helicopter didn't transmit any kind of distress call that we know of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The helicopter didn't transmit any kind of distress call that we know of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A peaceful mind generates power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22634]]></link><description><![CDATA[A peaceful mind generates power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October's foliage yellows with his cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44901]]></link><description><![CDATA[October's foliage yellows with his cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hun Sen has found himself under pressure and he is doing the minimum possible to keep the donors happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hun Sen has found himself under pressure and he is doing the minimum possible to keep the donors happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence?  Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost,   Star-eyed intelligence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52214]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is never more his single separate self than when he sets out on a journey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an exciting time for the Rockets. He will become one of the great players in NBA history. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40666]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an exciting time for the Rockets. He will become one of the great players in NBA history. He's got the size, intelligence, youth, and quickness to be a phenomenal, forceful player in the league.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5889]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27937]]></link><description><![CDATA['Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47326]]></link><description><![CDATA[When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15658]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33668]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will set aside more money for Social Security than what the president did in his budget; there's not a doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing you can do when you've made a mistake is exactly what she's done: Admit it, admit it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing you can do when you've made a mistake is exactly what she's done: Admit it, admit it soon and put yourself at the mercy of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisest have the most authority ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisest have the most authority]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  God in His providence has not allowed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  God in His providence has not allowed the survival of actual physical objects. But we have infinitely more than this, for instead of dead relics, however "authentic" and well preserved, we have a living life-line, stretching unbroken to Christ Himself. We have all the comfort and security that comes from historic tradition, but instead of being given the sad nostalgia of looking at an object and saying, "Look, how wonderful! This is what He touched then," we are given an evergreen memorial [in communion] which says, "This is what He touches now.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. [Lat., Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. [Lat., Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli;  Si fortuna tonat, caveto mergi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They'll be down as long as it takes to get it repaired. Luckily, they have a generator, and that helps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31120]]></link><description><![CDATA[They'll be down as long as it takes to get it repaired. Luckily, they have a generator, and that helps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14251]]></link><description><![CDATA[When day is done, and clouds are low, And flowers are honey-dew,  And Hesper's lamp begins to glow   Along the western blue;    And homeward wing the turtle-doves,     Then comes the hour the poet loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that God loves, do not live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that God loves, do not live long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you share with someone else, and you don't agree with the person you share with, there's no sovereignty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42454]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you share with someone else, and you don't agree with the person you share with, there's no sovereignty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this, and Heaven too! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19097]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this, and Heaven too!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19097</guid></item></channel></rss>