<?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 will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46300]]></link><description><![CDATA[One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two cannot fall out if one does not choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46890]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous youth,  That blushed at its own praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48932]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous youth,  That blushed at its own praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never death because they live in your heart foever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never death because they live in your heart foever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14761]]></link><description><![CDATA[In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did notsometimes taste of adversity, prosperity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21716]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did notsometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I could not sleep for cold I had fire enough in my brain,  And builded with roofs of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20526]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I could not sleep for cold I had fire enough in my brain,  And builded with roofs of gold   My beautiful castles in Spain!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you go on the road, it's tough. Our kids have fared well away from home and have done a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you go on the road, it's tough. Our kids have fared well away from home and have done a good job of getting ready each week and coming out fired up and ready to play. I don't expect anything different now, because our kids have stepped up in the big games. That's something you've got to be able to do in this district, and we can't go in worried about the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/869]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22711]]></link><description><![CDATA[All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be theconsequence, and pains to be coveted that will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be theconsequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greaterpleasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury;  For who forgives without a further ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury;  For who forgives without a further strife,   His adversary's heart to him doth tie:    And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said,     To win the heart than overthrow the head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress shall make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress shall make no law (abridging the freedom of speech).' No law, period.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of "taking chances" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw it last year, the fans, the crowd, the competition, I knew I wanted to be in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36307]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw it last year, the fans, the crowd, the competition, I knew I wanted to be in the county meet. Now I just want to go out there and have a good showing against the rest of the top guys in the county and just let the best man win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The staff has been great to work with, and Coach Martin has treated me great and allows me to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The staff has been great to work with, and Coach Martin has treated me great and allows me to grow as a coach everyday,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55799]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are worthless fowl, hatched from unlucky eggs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Supply-and-demand, -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953  Supply-and-demand, -- alas! For what noble work was there ever yet any audible demand in that poor sense? The man of Macedonia, speaking in vision to the Apostle Paul, "Come over and help us", did not specify what rate of wages he would give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25193]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is an ague, that forsakes And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes;  And they'll opine they feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is an ague, that forsakes And haunts, by fits, those whom it takes;  And they'll opine they feel the pain   And blows they felt, to-day, again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30303]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's what he is, a hooligan -- committed these very flagrant fouls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics nothing is contemptible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics nothing is contemptible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal is to unify AOL Time Warner, to sharpen its focus, capture synergies for growth and strengthen the integration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal is to unify AOL Time Warner, to sharpen its focus, capture synergies for growth and strengthen the integration of the company. We are not cutting into muscle, and these are not across-the-board cuts. It's only where appropriate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comprehensive deal is a comprehensive deal, which means all issues are addressed by everyone. Otherwise, it's a piecemeal deal. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comprehensive deal is a comprehensive deal, which means all issues are addressed by everyone. Otherwise, it's a piecemeal deal. ... It is not acceptable that we should fall short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664  Continuing a short series on prayer:   All outward power that we exercise in the things about us is but a shadow in comparison of that inward power that resides in our will, imagination, and desires; these communicate with eternity and kindle a life which always reaches either Heaven or hell... Here lies the ground of the great efficacy of prayer, which when it is the prayer of the heart, the prayer of faith, has a kindling and creating power, and forms and transforms the soul into everything that the desire reaches after: it has the key to the Kingdom of Heaven and unlocks all its treasures; it opens, extends and moves that in us which has its being and motion in and with the divine nature. and so it brings us into real union and Communion with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42069]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13399]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26739]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26219]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is not just about two loving and committed people. Marriage is a social institution that provides a social good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is not just about two loving and committed people. Marriage is a social institution that provides a social good, and a public good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55198]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16916]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street pays larger dividends, For life is more than stocks and bonds, and love than rate percent, And he who gives in friendship's name shall reap what he has spent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53838]]></link><description><![CDATA[REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It did a great deal of good, physically and mentally for me. I felt fresh out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It did a great deal of good, physically and mentally for me. I felt fresh out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9403</guid></item></channel></rss>