<?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 had not finished the first act before the quaint character of Peter Pan had charmed me. I could feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42240]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had not finished the first act before the quaint character of Peter Pan had charmed me. I could feel the presence of the Fairies and the Indians and the Pirates and the lost boys of Never-Never-Never Land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60389]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'etre.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53285]]></link><description><![CDATA[I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45129]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47030]]></link><description><![CDATA[You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4318]]></link><description><![CDATA[To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16385]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In times of stress and strain, people will vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60975]]></link><description><![CDATA[In times of stress and strain, people will vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4461]]></link><description><![CDATA[My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18091]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three black graces, Law, Physic, and Divinity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just unreal. I get 53 miles per gallon and it still hurts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply looked pretty tight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that supplies of crude oil and natural gas are more than adequate. The gasoline supply looked pretty tight a few weeks ago but the market responded and that's no longer the case. We are also getting closer to the end of winter and it's clear gas and heating-oil stocks will be sufficient.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have one true friend you have more than your share. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64401]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have one true friend you have more than your share.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44798]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27100]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2855]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray;  Gone is the sun, come are the stars, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The west is broken into bars Of orange, gold, and gray;  Gone is the sun, come are the stars,   And night infolds the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8549]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not encourage in ourselves or others any tendency to work up a subjective state which, if we succeeded, we should describe as "faith", with the idea that this will somehow ensure the granting of our prayer. We have probably all done this as children. But the state of mind which desperate desire working on a strong imagination can manufacture is not faith in the Christian sense. It is a feat of psychological gymnastics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people don't even expect us to score on these teams, ... We score twice, that might break their momentum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people don't even expect us to score on these teams, ... We score twice, that might break their momentum and make them ask, 'How are they doing this to us?' Whether it's one point or it's 30 points, I'm going to be upset because a loss is a loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51123]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9531]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9833]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66819]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filledwith noble risks, is worth whole years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22621]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filledwith noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltrydecorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish watersthrough a marsh, without either honour or observation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And every eye Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56252]]></link><description><![CDATA[And every eye Gaz'd as before some brother of the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, stemming from Johannite monasticism, than one of its most recent examples, Father de Foucauld. If he went out to the Ahaggar plateau, it was not only to find but also to proclaim God, thereby teaching the gospel in a way which desert people could understand. After his death, the example set by this hermit was followed by others who, far from settling in the desert places of the Sahara, set out to mingle with the peopled deserts of the great cities, there to preach the gospel by their example and their very presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66389]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that these kids are given an opportunity to play, because whatever happened before, they had nothing to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36253]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that these kids are given an opportunity to play, because whatever happened before, they had nothing to do with it. I just hope they have an opportunity to compete. They really deserve to. They have some great ballplayers in Cuba.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come like shadows, so depart! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come like shadows, so depart!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survives, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survives, its author remains immortal and cannot die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To warm their little loves the birds complain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4230]]></link><description><![CDATA[To warm their little loves the birds complain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4230</guid></item></channel></rss>