<?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[Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Corruption continues with us beyond the grave," She said, "and then plays merry hell with all ideas ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10186]]></link><description><![CDATA["Corruption continues with us beyond the grave," She said, "and then plays merry hell with all ideas]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20070]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is 'Probably because of something you did.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Agency has been behind us all the way and has explained everything whenever we have had doubts or questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Agency has been behind us all the way and has explained everything whenever we have had doubts or questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hener was the hero-king, Heaven-born, dear to us,  Showing his shield   A shelter for peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hener was the hero-king, Heaven-born, dear to us,  Showing his shield   A shelter for peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1491]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for his temple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3691]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is his own worst enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is his own worst enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have too rashly charged the troops of error and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15715]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have set yourself a task finish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have set yourself a task finish it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to make things happen. Hit-and-run, steals, we wanted to put pressure on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These falls are typically always frozen, but they're getting shorter as the snow pack increases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34483]]></link><description><![CDATA[These falls are typically always frozen, but they're getting shorter as the snow pack increases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God always takes the simplest way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66761]]></link><description><![CDATA[God always takes the simplest way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going beyond is as bad as falling short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going beyond is as bad as falling short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For us, they are all teaching games. We went into this game trying to win it. They have a great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35457]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us, they are all teaching games. We went into this game trying to win it. They have a great football team with a lot of speed and size.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are hard to get because not only were there four major hurricanes last year, but also winter storms this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31548]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are hard to get because not only were there four major hurricanes last year, but also winter storms this year caused great demand across the country. Manufacturers are producing them as fast as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35269]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is encouraging to see a kid come up and do what he doing. He's got five home runs. That's more than the starting eight combined. You watch him in batting practice, and you know he is a special kind of hitter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part we know what we're getting into, but we may get there and realize there's more to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32244]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part we know what we're getting into, but we may get there and realize there's more to it. The great thing about [Jo] is that she can take what's thrown her way and handle it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the author of change ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the author of change]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53972]]></link><description><![CDATA[The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recruited some really good talent, so it's just a matter of those guys coming in, learning the system and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recruited some really good talent, so it's just a matter of those guys coming in, learning the system and playing up to their capabilities. We'll need all of those guys ready to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a bare foote then none. [Better a barefoot than none.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a bare foote then none. [Better a barefoot than none.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotional effects after Hurricane Katrina had started to dissipate. Then along came Rita. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotional effects after Hurricane Katrina had started to dissipate. Then along came Rita.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52349]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many heroes lived before Agamemnon, but they are all unmourned, and consigned to oblivion, because they had no bard to sing their praises. [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona  Multi: sed omnes illacrimabiles   Urgentur, ignotique longa    Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14550]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember'd in thy epitaph! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember'd in thy epitaph! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great when they call us and tell us what's going on, and they are excited about a new life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32695]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great when they call us and tell us what's going on, and they are excited about a new life free of addictions. Most addicts don't want to be addicts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32695</guid></item></channel></rss>