<?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[It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a gift you give yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63535]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a gift you give yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn Into earth's lap does throw  Brown apples gay in a game of play,   As the equinoctials ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumn Into earth's lap does throw  Brown apples gay in a game of play,   As the equinoctials blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15706]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53400]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46473]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pity distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fair face may hide a foul heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50955]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fair face may hide a foul heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Garner) told me he's been in the big leagues a long time and to listen to him, ... He's taught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34790]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Garner) told me he's been in the big leagues a long time and to listen to him, ... He's taught me a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40804]]></link><description><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the winning spirit on the inside because we were brought up as winners. Some of these athletes that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33376]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the winning spirit on the inside because we were brought up as winners. Some of these athletes that you get now just want to play. It has to be taught and instilled in them. That's basically what we had to do with this group. They're just now getting the concept of what it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time I have seen an entire state create task forces to reduce registration failure. I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40490]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time I have seen an entire state create task forces to reduce registration failure. I have not seen such an improvement . . . as I have in Illinois.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dirigo [I lead] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dirigo [I lead]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26829]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wishing, of all employments is the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27409]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great for New England golf fans that the PGA Tour has made Labor Day weekend an annual end-of-summer destination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30246]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great for New England golf fans that the PGA Tour has made Labor Day weekend an annual end-of-summer destination at the TPC,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14035]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43536]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53961]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God comes to see without a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49267]]></link><description><![CDATA[God comes to see without a bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope:  I have hope to live, and am prepared to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51394]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope:  I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,  But in ourselves, that we are underlings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that envy others are their inferiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14049]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that envy others are their inferiors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   It is not that we keep His commandments first, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   It is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then He loves; but that He loves us, and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace, which is revealed to the humble, but hidden from the proud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no colors.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no colors.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many market observers are coming out with the belief that the market will break upward after the election. Such strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many market observers are coming out with the belief that the market will break upward after the election. Such strong consensus views often don't turn out to be a reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty in life is the choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6067]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty in life is the choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be happy while y'er leevin, For y'er a lang time deid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be happy while y'er leevin, For y'er a lang time deid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of friendship, generally say, "Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52940]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63639]]></link><description><![CDATA[By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63363]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many of our DREAMS at first seem Impossible, then they seem Improbable, and then when we Summon the Will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61582]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many of our DREAMS at first seem Impossible, then they seem Improbable, and then when we Summon the Will, they soon become Inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17700]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is a little too bright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24948</guid></item></channel></rss>