<?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 don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These figures come at a difficult time, with regional and local newspapers subject to the same market forces as other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41240]]></link><description><![CDATA[These figures come at a difficult time, with regional and local newspapers subject to the same market forces as other consumer products and media. Despite this, a number of regional newspapers have seen some very impressive results due to investment, audience research and focusing on what their readers want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote,  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye   I see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2738]]></link><description><![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote,  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye   I see a wilde civility,--    Doe more bewitch me than when art     Is too precise in every part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50880]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In death a hero, as in life a friend!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11266]]></link><description><![CDATA[In death a hero, as in life a friend!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plus those guys don't have mascots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plus those guys don't have mascots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I applaud the senator for her efforts, but they are ineffectual and too little. She needs to get real with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I applaud the senator for her efforts, but they are ineffectual and too little. She needs to get real with ... the unions and the special interests that listen to her and have them recognize they are destroying jobs and opportunities in the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness. -Thomas Merton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49838]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20014]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-love seems so often unrequited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-love seems so often unrequited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dallas played smarter than us. They played harder than us. It seems their will was greater than ours. Everything snowballed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dallas played smarter than us. They played harder than us. It seems their will was greater than ours. Everything snowballed from there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell me the odds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell me the odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiable weakness of human nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiable weakness of human nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27639]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to hold a man is in your arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to hold a man is in your arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23281]]></link><description><![CDATA[All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone tells me that the Italian championship is the toughest in the world, but I'm not afraid. In my career, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone tells me that the Italian championship is the toughest in the world, but I'm not afraid. In my career, I've always scored goals, wherever I've been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's probably a fairly even split of the people who are solidly behind Katherine and those who are not solidly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34565]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's probably a fairly even split of the people who are solidly behind Katherine and those who are not solidly behind her yet and thinking about another candidate probably would be nice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,--  Weeps like a tired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2985]]></link><description><![CDATA[For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,--  Weeps like a tired child who had,   Playing with flowers, lost its way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the sinner has a right to preach ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the sinner has a right to preach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39414]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holy Saturday Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   (1) God's children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holy Saturday Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   (1) God's children ought to walk in constant amazement of spirit as to God, His nature, and works. (2) The glorifying of God is the great work of God's children. (3) Delightful privacy with God argues strong affection. (4) Frequent prayer an argument of much of God's Spirit; true prayer is the pouring out of the heart to God; God's children are most in private with God; the prayers of God's people most respect spiritual mercies; God's people wait for and rest in God's answer. (5) God's people are sensible of their unworthiness. (6) God Himself is regarded as the portion of His people. (7) Ready obedience to God. (8) The patience of God's children under God's hand. (9) The mournful confession of God's people. (10) God's people long after God in an open profession of His ordinances. (11) Their hearts are ready and prepared. (12) God's people's sense of their own insufficiencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started doing stand-up in college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31016]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started doing stand-up in college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,— Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55711]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,— Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26593]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale?" someone asked the chaplain. "No, I look at the Senators and pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9768]]></link><description><![CDATA["Do you pray for the Senators, Dr. Hale?" someone asked the chaplain. "No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruling eliminates the risk of a large-scale financial verdict, should increase the market's visibility of Philip Morris' long-term U.S. tobacco market share and profit growth, and avoids press coverage of the industry airing its internal issues in public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10719]]></link><description><![CDATA[What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ideas fail, words come in very handy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20286]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ideas fail, words come in very handy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50133]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time out for tack, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time out for tack,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you can see just walking around Portland is evidence of what's going on in construction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29640]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you can see just walking around Portland is evidence of what's going on in construction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To grow a philosopher's beard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48553]]></link><description><![CDATA[To grow a philosopher's beard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48553</guid></item></channel></rss>