<?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[Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we,  As ever did sing in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we,  As ever did sing in a hempen string   Under the gallow-tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion follows close on mistrust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the men on my staff can type. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27038]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the men on my staff can type.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48979]]></link><description><![CDATA[When yet was ever found a mother Who'd give her booby for another?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46288]]></link><description><![CDATA[If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It is of no use to say that Christ, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It is of no use to say that Christ, as exhibited in the Gospels, is not historical, and that we know not how much of what is admirable has been super-added by the tradition of his followers. Who among his disciples or among their proselytes was capable of inventing the sayings of Jesus or of imagining the life and character revealed in the Gospels? Certainly not the fishermen of Galilee; as certainly not St. Paul, whose character and idiosyncrasies were of a totally different sort; still less the early Christian writers, in whom nothing is more evident than that the good which was in them was all derived, as they always professed that it was derived, from the higher source.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs before the series and people thought it was a two horse race (between Australia and South ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41971]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were clearly underdogs before the series and people thought it was a two horse race (between Australia and South Africa) but here we are. We believe in ourselves and back ourselves and we played almost as well as we can today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally.(US District Judge in commenting on the Fox network lawsuitagainst Al ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47355]]></link><description><![CDATA[This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally.(US District Judge in commenting on the Fox network lawsuitagainst Al Franken's book).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51363]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all lies, art is the least untrue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all lies, art is the least untrue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homelessness among seniors is a tragedy we never want to see happen. Fortunately, the city does not have a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homelessness among seniors is a tragedy we never want to see happen. Fortunately, the city does not have a large population of seniors without permanent housing, and although we have seen a slight increase - less than one-half percent - they make up less than 3 percent of the city's homeless population overall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which gives the stern'st good-night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which gives the stern'st good-night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46033]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62197]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they will maintain the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14812]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do think there has been an air of cooperation, and I think we are going to read this here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do think there has been an air of cooperation, and I think we are going to read this here and see we have made some progress on both sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7894]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. And, as the enjoying of God is the enjoying of all, so the loss of God is the loss of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44993]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38542]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't bunch enough hits together. The two double plays really hurt us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37294]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't bunch enough hits together. The two double plays really hurt us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27315]]></link><description><![CDATA[While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57057]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57346]]></link><description><![CDATA[His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most cheerleaders have knee problems. I had just gotten back from the doctor about two weeks before this happened with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most cheerleaders have knee problems. I had just gotten back from the doctor about two weeks before this happened with a bruised meniscus and tendonitis in my patella. A lot of the girls on the squad have irregular cartilage and torn ligaments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23450]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. . -George Bernard Shaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57391]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where every day is not the Lord's, the Sunday is his least of all. There may be a sickening unreality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where every day is not the Lord's, the Sunday is his least of all. There may be a sickening unreality even where there is no conscious hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44605]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44605</guid></item></channel></rss>