<?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[I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20746]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime they can point to something concrete, something that's happening, it helps them refute all the allegations, all the daily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime they can point to something concrete, something that's happening, it helps them refute all the allegations, all the daily news that comes in on the ongoing violence and the more-structural problems,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60870]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person -- a mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6205]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not a power or principle or law, but he is a living, creating, communicating person -- a mind who thinks, a heart who feels, a will who acts, whose best name is Father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow-to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24475]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow-to the end and at all costs. Charles deGaulle -Harold J. Seymour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[said Adams. ''We're really going to miss Matt, but we're lucky we gained someone young like Neal who is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30160]]></link><description><![CDATA[said Adams. ''We're really going to miss Matt, but we're lucky we gained someone young like Neal who is a great teacher and person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46453]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40121]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is to teach those who have never gone hunting how to respect farming traditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Christians we believe that man is not a thing; he is not a commodity to be bought and sold, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6192]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Christians we believe that man is not a thing; he is not a commodity to be bought and sold, and he is not to be used in an impersonal way. Man, a child of God, is a person with a personal destiny and with eternal value. This Christian belief underlies the democratic principle that the State, first of all, exists for the sake of its citizens; the individual is important... As Christians we also believe that we are made for one another because we are made for God. "Solidarity" is a good word for our essential condition. Beneath all our differences is a unity... This Christian belief underlies a second basic democratic principle, which is, in governing themselves, people of a community -- in a town, a city, a state, a nation -- can, despite inevitable conflicts, press effectively toward the goal of justice and liberty for all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be morefun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22081]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be morefun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14643]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The information is used by conservation groups and other agencies to set priorities for funding and research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The information is used by conservation groups and other agencies to set priorities for funding and research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always say they're going to cut back my ice time. Well, I don't want them to do that. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32836]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always say they're going to cut back my ice time. Well, I don't want them to do that. I want to force them to play me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20820]]></link><description><![CDATA[A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66166]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15805]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22837]]></link><description><![CDATA[But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51881]]></link><description><![CDATA[What may be done at any time will be done at no time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just where the Treasury's marble front Looks over Wall Street's mingled nations,--  Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just where the Treasury's marble front Looks over Wall Street's mingled nations,--  Where Jews and Gentiles most are wont   To throng for trade and last quotations;    Where, hour, by hour, the rates of gold     Outrival, in the ears of people,      The quarter-chimes, serenely tolled       From Trinity's undaunted steeple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901   What are our lame praises in comparison with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901   What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather than be dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66336]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet;  To seek what ancient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9939]]></link><description><![CDATA[With more of thanks and less of thought, I strive to make my matters meet;  To seek what ancient sages sought,   Physic and food in sour and sweet,    To take what passes in good part,     And keep the hiccups from the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am glad that my Adonis hath a sweete tooth in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64512]]></link><description><![CDATA[A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still think we're very committed and very determined. We were ordinary in execution. The injuries shook us up a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32584]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still think we're very committed and very determined. We were ordinary in execution. The injuries shook us up a little bit last week and maybe some of the boys were thinking they were only one game away from the play-offs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not allow the state of lawlessness, the disorder of weapons, taking law into one's hands, kidnapping and attacks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41291]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not allow the state of lawlessness, the disorder of weapons, taking law into one's hands, kidnapping and attacks on government institutions and state land to continue, ... No one is above the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.  Sense is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.  Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound;   When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam;    Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7488]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that they will get what they have sought. Accordingly we must note the general forms by which no one from first to last (as people say) is excluded, provided sincerity of heart, dissatisfaction with ourselves, humility, and faith are present in order that our hypocrisy may not profane God's name by calling upon him deceitfully. Our most gracious Father will not cast out those whom he not only urges, but stirs up with every possible means, to come to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the most powerful scream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the most powerful scream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good enough never is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good enough never is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66048]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66482]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands,  Ring'd with the azure world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13105]]></link><description><![CDATA[He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands,  Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.   The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls:    He watches from his mountain walls,     And like a thunderbolt he falls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55083]]></link><description><![CDATA[SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49076]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28834</guid></item></channel></rss>