<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the matter with Kansas? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51856]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the matter with Kansas?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. [Lat., Bis gratum est, quod dato opus est, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23764]]></link><description><![CDATA[If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. [Lat., Bis gratum est, quod dato opus est, ultro si offeras.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63298]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20928]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've cut out their tongues andthe larks can no longer singthe birds can no longer flythey've cut off their wingsand in their next liveslarks and birds will becomethose who've cut offlarks' tongues and bird wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52039]]></link><description><![CDATA[You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66184]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61965]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5873]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some Chicago neighborhoods, looking for a parking space is not unlike panning for gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have asked the leaders to settle the issues fast and reach a compromise as it will permit the Iraqi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36216]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have asked the leaders to settle the issues fast and reach a compromise as it will permit the Iraqi parliament to complete the draft constitution in time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It says a whole lot about his character. To step up there and made two free throws like that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34111]]></link><description><![CDATA[It says a whole lot about his character. To step up there and made two free throws like that is something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm thrilled to be adding Shawn to our administrative team. He brings a lot to the table. ... Being a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29866]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm thrilled to be adding Shawn to our administrative team. He brings a lot to the table. ... Being a native of Wisconsin, he knows our state. We are getting a very well-rounded and bright person to join our staff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the key word here was persistency. We just kept putting pressure on them, believed in our system and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the key word here was persistency. We just kept putting pressure on them, believed in our system and sooner or later, we would get the breaks to win the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Your problem isn't karma, Sheldon, it's attitude!" "Well, Lonnie, maybe it's attitudinal karma !" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23683]]></link><description><![CDATA["Your problem isn't karma, Sheldon, it's attitude!" "Well, Lonnie, maybe it's attitudinal karma !"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sun comes up, I have morals again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43142]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sun comes up, I have morals again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I definitely feel a bond with Jordan. Him being from L.A., I got plenty of opportunities to see him play. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29630]]></link><description><![CDATA[I definitely feel a bond with Jordan. Him being from L.A., I got plenty of opportunities to see him play. I definitely knew I'd be coming into a school with another talented guard, and you have to enjoy that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the biggest thing is that we have to replace a bunch of starters. We've lost 14 players. Up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the biggest thing is that we have to replace a bunch of starters. We've lost 14 players. Up front, we lose two who will be playing in the pros next year. We lost four really good players at linebacker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it. in the book THE JUNGLE.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love. . -Lao Tzu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love. . -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet's darling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet's darling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the largest ever TV audience; the busiest Web site in the world; the largest ever online petition -- The Live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40849]]></link><description><![CDATA[the largest ever TV audience; the busiest Web site in the world; the largest ever online petition -- The Live 8 list; the largest ever text petition; the largest ever response to a TV show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to itand helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces -- self-denial, readiness to the cross -- they all work and help faith. Yet when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do. Not to be surprised with any thing is the substance of human wisdom; not to be surprised with death is a great part of the substance of our spiritual wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48854]]></link><description><![CDATA[No deceit is so veiled as that which lies concealed behind the semblance of courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56904]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11271]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a number of moderate Republicans around who are qualified for the court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35079]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a number of moderate Republicans around who are qualified for the court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up. [Lat., Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st  Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris.   Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos,    Si in obserendo possint interfieri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the only gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the only gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47298]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22593]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pint can't hold a quart -- if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is just another muscle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is just another muscle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. [Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. [Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're never too old to become younger ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62529]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're never too old to become younger]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66764</guid></item></channel></rss>