<?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[All kings is mostly rapscallions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54526]]></link><description><![CDATA[All kings is mostly rapscallions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Baby pushed me out of the lane. I didn't do what I was supposed to do. I missed shots. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big Baby pushed me out of the lane. I didn't do what I was supposed to do. I missed shots. I tried to do other things, like rebound and block shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is more eloquent than words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is more eloquent than words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She 's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. -King Henry VI. Part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55978]]></link><description><![CDATA[She 's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow let us do or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/496]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow let us do or die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important because obviously I market my company through publicity. I make no bones about that. It (the claim) helps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32620]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important because obviously I market my company through publicity. I make no bones about that. It (the claim) helps symbolize how hard I've worked over the years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If I mistake, He will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If I mistake, He will forgive me. I do not fear Him: I only fear lest, able to see and write these things, I should fail of witnessing and myself be, after all, a castaway -- no king but a talker: no disciple of Jesus, ready to go with Him to the death, but an arguer about the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jack was embarrassed--never hero more, And as he knew not what to say, he swore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jack was embarrassed--never hero more, And as he knew not what to say, he swore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25977]]></link><description><![CDATA[One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55938]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and jangle, and plunder.   - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is the shadow of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is the shadow of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain;  And then, those little anodynes   That deaden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19046]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain;  And then, those little anodynes   That deaden suffering;    And then, to go to sleep;     And then, if it should be      The will of its Inquisitor,       The liberty to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talentsare, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talentsare, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given tous. We have to build it piece by piece-by thought, choice, courage anddetermination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16567]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them to be called mine, I will send you my verses gratis; if you wish them to be called yours, pray buy them, that they may be mine no longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think; therefore I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think; therefore I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31156]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25475]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The downfall of the Dracula of the century is a day of happiness for every Palestinian and every Muslim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The downfall of the Dracula of the century is a day of happiness for every Palestinian and every Muslim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In indolent vacuity of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59213]]></link><description><![CDATA[In indolent vacuity of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In a manger for His bed: / Mary was that Mother mild, / Jesus Christ her little Child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11313]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   The concept of Israel as the chosen people does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   The concept of Israel as the chosen people does not imply a certain divine favoritism, as some seem to think, but an opportunity of grace, a calling that involved the assumption of the servant role among the nations. It was the fact that they had interpreted themselves as special objects of God's favor, and rejected the servant role, that led to their own rejection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5029]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52914]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9029]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9029</guid></item></channel></rss>