<?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[An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63430]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You made this mess yourself, and now you must eat it all up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51761]]></link><description><![CDATA[You made this mess yourself, and now you must eat it all up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6126]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed,  As if Theocritus in Sicily   Had come upon the Figure crucified,    And lost his gods in deep, Christ-given rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784  A student may easily exhaust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784  A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man turns chance into good fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22310]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man turns chance into good fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2973]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,  More pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10455]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,  More pangs and fears than wars or women have;   And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,    Never to hope again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been talking for a while about bringing this type of content to Newport for a while and finally we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42557]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been talking for a while about bringing this type of content to Newport for a while and finally we decided to go ahead and do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54064]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.  And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream is short, repentance long. [Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream is short, repentance long. [Ger., Der Wahn ist kurtz, die Reu ist lang.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union Carbide desecratedIndia withkiller insecticidesbrought to BhopalThey violated HinduismAll bugs are sacredto Ahimsa's Gopal***(the biggest industrial accident of all time.. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Union Carbide desecratedIndia withkiller insecticidesbrought to BhopalThey violated HinduismAll bugs are sacredto Ahimsa's Gopal***(the biggest industrial accident of all time.. involved several thousand deaths..as killer insecticide gas killed humans.. )Ahimsa nonviolenceGopal.. name for Krishna as protector of cows and all beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397  Moreover, you are not to ask what each man's desserts are. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397  Moreover, you are not to ask what each man's desserts are. Mercy is not ordinarily held to consist in pronouncing judgment on another man's deserts, but in relieving his necessities; in giving aid to the poor, not in inquiring how good they are.  .. St. Ambrose    December 8, 1997  There is a manifest want of spiritual influence on the ministry of the present day. I feel it in my own case and I see it in that of others. I am afraid there is too much of a low, managing, contriving, maneuvering temper of mind among us. We are laying ourselves out more than is expedient to meet one man's taste and another man's prejudices. The ministry is a grand and holy affair, and it should find in us a simple habit of spirit and a holy but humble indifference to all consequences. A leading defect in Christian ministers is want of a devotional habit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got off stage and this guy walked up to me. He's like this ball of energy. His name was Lawrence Mathis, a manager. He said. 'I like what you're doing, and I'd like to talk to you. What are your plans? What are you doing?' I said, 'You caught me at a bad time, because I'm probably moving home in a couple of months.' But I met with him that next Monday and told him what was going on. He said, 'Give me a year to work with you.' I said, 'l don't have a year. I've got six months, at best.' He said, 'All right. Six months.' Five weeks later we got offered a deal from Broken Bow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been only three years, but after all that has happened it seems like a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42703]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been only three years, but after all that has happened it seems like a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide,  Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?   All wickedness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61338]]></link><description><![CDATA[If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide,  Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?   All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore,    With God or man will gain thee no remission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [Ger., Was man in der Jugend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61779]]></link><description><![CDATA[What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [Ger., Was man in der Jugend wunscht, hat man im Alter die Fulle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12912]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5551]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent. [Fr., Le bruit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent. [Fr., Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte pour le sot;  L'honnete homme trompe s'eloigne et ne dit mot.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Juliet: We've never got friendly. I just wanted to say I hope that can change. I'm nice, I really am, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Juliet: We've never got friendly. I just wanted to say I hope that can change. I'm nice, I really am, apart from my terrible taste in pie. And it would be great if we could be friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62182]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the church was in the county, this never would have happened. They never would have allowed us to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37462]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the church was in the county, this never would have happened. They never would have allowed us to be inundated with traffic out here. The city never accepted responsibility for this. They do this all over. They give carte blanche to developers. I firmly believe that's why the church was annexed into the city. I firmly believe that's why they never talked to us and they never got a development order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45331]]></link><description><![CDATA[In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear and uncertainty, both in things spiritual and things temporal, or civil. Whilst men are under the power of actual impressions from such fears, they will convert to God, yea, they will turn in a moment, and perfect their holiness in an instant; but so soon as that impression wears off (as it will do on every occasion, and upon none at all) such persons are as dead and cold towards God as the lead or iron, which but now ran in a fiery stream, is now when the heat is departed from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you say no, you could be jailed for two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36673]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you say no, you could be jailed for two years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comparisons are odious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comparisons are odious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the learned and authentic fellows. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55723]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the learned and authentic fellows. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold their nose to the grindstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold their nose to the grindstone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,   Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47186]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step toward change is awareness. The second step isacceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22326]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step toward change is awareness. The second step isacceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They think incentives will be leveling off. With all the new models being launched in next 12 to 18 months, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30627]]></link><description><![CDATA[They think incentives will be leveling off. With all the new models being launched in next 12 to 18 months, they will not need incentives to spur sales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30627</guid></item></channel></rss>