<?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[, Freeze-Frame -Doc Childre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9070]]></link><description><![CDATA[, Freeze-Frame -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57900]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tempest in a tumbler of water. [Fr., C'est une tempete dans un verre d'eau.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It makes direct suggestions to our souls: it reminds us of realities which we always tend to forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20184]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of the people, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17384]]></link><description><![CDATA[GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of the people, and reveal him to be a bit of a fat cat. Unlike the President who — as we all know — before attending Andover and Yale, was a Cockney matchstick girl dying of tuberculosis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2689]]></link><description><![CDATA[My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59796]]></link><description><![CDATA[But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder why prostitution is illegal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder why prostitution is illegal]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mandate of our show is to find what makes us laugh. We had tough shoes to fill for this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mandate of our show is to find what makes us laugh. We had tough shoes to fill for this role, and finding someone to fit the character of Jeffrey was a challenge, if not a miracle. But when miracles happen, you don't question them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57632]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, as far as I'm concerned (the petition) is coming out of a racist response. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, as far as I'm concerned (the petition) is coming out of a racist response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever the situation may be don't ever be cold to someone u care about... indifference and unanswerable question hurts more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever the situation may be don't ever be cold to someone u care about... indifference and unanswerable question hurts more than angry words...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50522]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been!  On thy seven hills of yore   Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been!  On thy seven hills of yore   Thou sat'st a queen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21154]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39592]]></link><description><![CDATA[But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23608]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13429]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10304]]></link><description><![CDATA[If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 -- bowling balls. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 -- bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pouring oil on troubled water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pouring oil on troubled water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the grounds will seem bare. It will change the park. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the grounds will seem bare. It will change the park.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very pleased that our ships are making a difference in their lives and contributing to the recovery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very pleased that our ships are making a difference in their lives and contributing to the recovery of New Orleans,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The female of the species is more deadly than the male. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The female of the species is more deadly than the male.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10099]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' study of books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He got there late and I briefed him. I'm not sure he didn't follow my lead out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40433]]></link><description><![CDATA[He got there late and I briefed him. I'm not sure he didn't follow my lead out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every path hath a puddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every path hath a puddle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who teacheth often learns himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who teacheth often learns himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can remember more than three points. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27840]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can remember more than three points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes show us what we need to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes show us what we need to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance shouldn't be a factor in a relationship but communication, trust and commitment should be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance shouldn't be a factor in a relationship but communication, trust and commitment should be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27778</guid></item></channel></rss>