<?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 lost it in the sun!(after fumbling a grounder.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost it in the sun!(after fumbling a grounder.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10595]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, "Don't play like me, play like you.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead. [Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem quisque odit periisse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead. [Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem quisque odit periisse expetit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just signed a commitment for peaceful settlement, ... We aim to end violence and to begin a new life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36230]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just signed a commitment for peaceful settlement, ... We aim to end violence and to begin a new life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Accustom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation -- speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55618]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many things by season season'd are To their right praise and true perfection! -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27477]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long;  So instead of getting to heaven at last, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48082]]></link><description><![CDATA[God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long;  So instead of getting to heaven at last,   I'm going all along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your day will come is another way of saying you get yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your day will come is another way of saying you get yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But each day brings from its pretty dust Our soon choked souls to fill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57268]]></link><description><![CDATA[But each day brings from its pretty dust Our soon choked souls to fill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63939]]></link><description><![CDATA[All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61951]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medical education is not completed at the medical school, it is only begun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medical education is not completed at the medical school, it is only begun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, the[former] governor of Massachusetts has a lot of homework to do on the problems facing our state. When he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, the[former] governor of Massachusetts has a lot of homework to do on the problems facing our state. When he finally gets around to it, he'll see that the problems we face require real solutions rather than stale political rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4977]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You go where you would normally go in your place of business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31558]]></link><description><![CDATA[You go where you would normally go in your place of business,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can afford to be a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50241]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can afford to be a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring to a boilAdd oilThen bombMs Roy is author of the God of Small Things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring to a boilAdd oilThen bombMs Roy is author of the God of Small Things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47102]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14803]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64123]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mighty stream of tendency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14352]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mighty stream of tendency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we know that what Jesus has shown us of God is the truth; or how do we know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7768]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we know that what Jesus has shown us of God is the truth; or how do we know when we look into the face of Jesus that we are looking into the face of God? The answer is so plain and simple that it is a marvel how intelligent men can manage to miss it as they do. Look at what Christ has done for the soul of man: that is your answer. Christianity is just Christ --nothing more and nothing less. It is a way of life, and He is that way. It is the truth about human destiny, and He is that truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13538]]></link><description><![CDATA[To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so happy. I'm going to United States. I'm not going to have anymore problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so happy. I'm going to United States. I'm not going to have anymore problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48920]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest about thirty years after date.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Religion is the same that ever it was, only it suffers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970  Religion is the same that ever it was, only it suffers by them that make profession of it. Never was there less regard for the Person and offices of Christ, of His grace, and of the benefits of His mediation, among them that are called Christians, than is found among many at this day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7595</guid></item></channel></rss>