<?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[A merry monarch, scandalous and poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54530]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We like going into an away stadium and establishing that as our home. Nothing's better than going into an away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38186]]></link><description><![CDATA[We like going into an away stadium and establishing that as our home. Nothing's better than going into an away stadium and shutting up 80,000 people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29111]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love we give away is the only love we keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love we give away is the only love we keep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more to life than increasing its speed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22727]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more to life than increasing its speed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm learning who I can trust and who I can't. I can't believe he did that to me. He turned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm learning who I can trust and who I can't. I can't believe he did that to me. He turned right into me with the right front (wheel). Now I've been Cheever-ed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is how often you are feeling this sense of distress, how bad it gets, and how long it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is how often you are feeling this sense of distress, how bad it gets, and how long it lasts; that is what can help determine the seriousness of your situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/687]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: "Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility. - Borsi, A Soldier's Confidences with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday I had no God but these, The sacerdotal trees, And they uplifted me,  "I hung upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday I had no God but these, The sacerdotal trees, And they uplifted me,  "I hung upon a Tree." The sun and moon I saw, And reverential awe Subdued me day and night,  "I am the perfect light." Within a lifeless stone -- All other gods unknown -- I sought Divinity,  "The Corner-stone am I." For sacrificial feast I slaughtered man and beast, Red recompense to gain.  "So I a Lamb was slain." "Yea, such My hungering Grace That whereso'er My face Is hidden, none may grope  Beyond eternal Hope.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation here involves bringing people together. The program has been down basketball-wise for a long time. The easy way to break the ice is with a sense of humor. Not making light of it, but using it to break the ice. Personality and having a sense of humor helps generate people's interest and puts them at a sense of ease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains  The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9139]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains  The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's neat about color is you can take a piece of wood that's pretty blah and make it really interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39661]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's neat about color is you can take a piece of wood that's pretty blah and make it really interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that you want to find a solution that the Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40142]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that you want to find a solution that the Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and harmony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of God in peoples' lives allows a little outside organization in their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32693]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of God in peoples' lives allows a little outside organization in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness.   - Sir James Mackintosh, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The frivolous work of polished idleness.   - Sir James Mackintosh,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45098]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? Shall we have a play extempore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the voice of distinction I never possessed. I don't think of myself as a teacher so much as an impersonator of profundities, inhabiting the wisdom of texts with the naked confidence that the value of the genius I espouse transcends the particular fraud that I am the one espousing it. And it doesn't even matter to me that no one seems to be listening; those who listen that I don't know about are enough to keep me going--soaring on the wings of borrowed metaphors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that labours and thrives spins gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mountaine and a river are good neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49062]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Horas non numero nisi serenas." There stands in the garden of old St. Mark  A sun dial quaint and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58313]]></link><description><![CDATA["Horas non numero nisi serenas." There stands in the garden of old St. Mark  A sun dial quaint and gray.   It takes no heed of the hours which in dark    Pass o'er it day by day.     It has stood for ages amid the flowers      In that land of sky and song.       "I number none but the cloudless hours,"        Its motto the live day long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836  Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things. [Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things. [Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive a tout.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45493]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold, Held up their chalices of gold  To catch the sunshine and the dew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold, Held up their chalices of gold  To catch the sunshine and the dew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. [Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adflictis negat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it. [Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adflictis negat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only risk of failure is promotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only risk of failure is promotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun,  Singing in soothing tones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun,  Singing in soothing tones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22899]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23744]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4139]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made arrangements to get those kids back to her, ... He took that all upon himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37035]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made arrangements to get those kids back to her, ... He took that all upon himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53929]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are they are they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53929</guid></item></channel></rss>