<?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[That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40823]]></link><description><![CDATA[That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be a mother of four, a welder or a distinguished business person. These people build up a tolerance and manage to still maintain their daily lifestyles while constantly struggling with this disease, because it is a recognized disease by the American Medical Association.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong payroll growth raises inflationary concerns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong payroll growth raises inflationary concerns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were treated like animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36174]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were treated like animals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46892]]></link><description><![CDATA[A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. However, the dominant theme lurking beneath the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada's housing markets remained robust in early 2006, despite slightly higher mortgage rates. However, the dominant theme lurking beneath the national average results is clear signs that speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a soft-landing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40146]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two logical places they could come across either the Iraqi or Syrian borders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press was doing its job, and in doing its job, they saw this clash between what they were witnessing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press was doing its job, and in doing its job, they saw this clash between what they were witnessing with their own eyes and what officials were telling them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sun has not yet set for ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50564]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sun has not yet set for ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are people who are choosing between food or paying the rent, people who are choosing between food and buying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33384]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are people who are choosing between food or paying the rent, people who are choosing between food and buying their child a pair of shoes, food and heat in the wintertime. They?re seniors who are choosing whether to buy food or pay for medicine. Folks are going entire days without anything to eat at all. They are literally going to bed hungry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, by Extortion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, by Extortion, and bribery, and deceitful waights and measures, and deluding oathes in buying and selling, and then come hither, and so make God your Receiver, and his house a den of Thieves. His house is Sanctum Sanctorum, The holiest of holies, and you make it onely Sanctuarium: It should be a place sanctified by your devotions, and you make it onely a Sanctuary to priviledge Maelfactors, a place that may redeeme you from the ill opinion of men, who must in charity be bound to thinke well of you, because they see you in here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because, you know what your hours are going to be and they also have periods of time off within the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because, you know what your hours are going to be and they also have periods of time off within the season, that you just don't get on an hour show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, Day of days! in peals of praise Throughout all ages owned,  When Christ, our God, hell's empire trod, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, Day of days! in peals of praise Throughout all ages owned,  When Christ, our God, hell's empire trod,   And high o'er heaven was throned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. -Charles Kuralt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19480]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander thanI now am. Just as the sky ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander thanI now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its presentperfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfectand not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and Iam not deficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4588]]></link><description><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bettors looking to cash in on their NFL betting intuition have only a few days left to bet on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bettors looking to cash in on their NFL betting intuition have only a few days left to bet on the outcome of Sunday's Super Bowl. To round out the betting experience for our players, Bodog.com has been offering a wide variety of quality and unique proposition wagers for the Super Bowl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19182]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cotton is King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cotton is King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897 To live of love, it is to know no fear;  No memory of past faults can I recall; No imprint of my sins remaineth here;  The fire of Love divine effaces all. O sacred flames! O furnace of delight!  I sing my safe sweet happiness to prove. In these mild fires I dwell by day, by night.  I live of love!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57755]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding practice, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40570]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we say it's time for batting practice, they say, 'Oh, let's go!' When it's time for fielding practice, they start moaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he started, the population was about 7,000 people and now it's up to over 40,000 people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he started, the population was about 7,000 people and now it's up to over 40,000 people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the pools are bright and deep Where the gray trout lies asleep,  Up the river and o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the pools are bright and deep Where the gray trout lies asleep,  Up the river and o'er the lea   That's the way for Billy and me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pleased with the way we responded tonight. That's a real fine team. Our defense down the stretch was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35025]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pleased with the way we responded tonight. That's a real fine team. Our defense down the stretch was a significant factor in the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a good decade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30475]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a good decade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11234]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never hit a ball that far that didn't go over a fence. I think it really got us going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never hit a ball that far that didn't go over a fence. I think it really got us going and helped carry us a little bit. It was a great day today to be in this atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54801]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19518]]></link><description><![CDATA[They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19518</guid></item></channel></rss>