<?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 blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of this you may be assured, that you shall none of you suffer for your opinions or religion, so long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of this you may be assured, that you shall none of you suffer for your opinions or religion, so long as you live peaceably, and you have the word of a king for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-love seems so often unrequited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-love seems so often unrequited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moments of complete apathy are the best for new creations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moments of complete apathy are the best for new creations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64803]]></link><description><![CDATA[A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the worst pain I'd ever felt in my life. I didn't want to go to school. I dreaded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36135]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the worst pain I'd ever felt in my life. I didn't want to go to school. I dreaded going to the training room every day because I knew what was going to happen. It was a lot of pain, but I wanted to come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its nice to enjoy the win, but we won't be happy until we get into the playoffs. Our goal now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its nice to enjoy the win, but we won't be happy until we get into the playoffs. Our goal now is to get ready for Tuesday night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42564]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's not like you can just rest on your laurels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29030]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm Chevy Chase and you're not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5288]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm Chevy Chase and you're not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65842]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50360]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous care;   No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand--    Contempt is Failure's share!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt that I could've thrown more combinations. I wasn't perfect, and I didn't want to do anything stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36387]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt that I could've thrown more combinations. I wasn't perfect, and I didn't want to do anything stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healed me of the lust of vindicating myself, that so Thou mightest forgive all the rest of my iniquities, and heal all my infirmities, and redeem my life from corruption, and crown me with mercy and pity, and satisfy my desire with good things; who didst curb my pride with Thy fear, and tame my neck to Thy yoke. And now I bear it and it is light unto me, because so hast Thou promised, and hast made it; and verily it was so, and I knew it not, when I feared to take it.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    October 10, 1999  Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644  Wilberforce, Lord Shaftesbury, and many other evangelicals, have been leaders in social reform, but it was not their religion. Their efforts succeeded because they put first things first, and believed firmly in the Word of God, in the conversion of the individual, in prayer, and in using spiritual means for spiritual work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66028]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cause a day keeps reality away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22052]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cause a day keeps reality away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam improbus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15480]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et reddere nescit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17841</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[All I know is what I read in the papers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44488]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I know is what I read in the papers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24844]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the most beautiful of all lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the most beautiful of all lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is that he might have joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is that he might have joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my coach, which stays for us  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25412]]></link><description><![CDATA[But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my coach, which stays for us  At the park gate; and therefore haste away,   For we must measure twenty miles to-day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competitions are for horse, not artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm Sunday] has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions -- even parading without a permit! Also, when Jesus "set his face to go to Jerusalem," what was involved was direct action, an open confrontation and public demonstration of the incompatibility of evil with the Kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there may be a wife someplace else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer the word "homemaker" because "housewife" always implies that there may be a wife someplace else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. . . . No longer diverted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62126]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first. . . . No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our agency is the largest agriculture water retailer in San Diego County. We have about 23,000 or 24,000 acres of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our agency is the largest agriculture water retailer in San Diego County. We have about 23,000 or 24,000 acres of agricultural land, so while we have enough storage to serve our domestic customers for 10 days, we don't have enough storage to accommodate our agricultural customers during the shutdown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has no religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53440]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has no religion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The very best way to send an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6525]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The very best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a Person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56157]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end.  I was angry with my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end.  I was angry with my foe;   I told it not, my wrath did grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explosive material plus radioactive material equals dirty bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Explosive material plus radioactive material equals dirty bomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6861]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man must hear and respond to God's word in man's own language, and that every believer must be free to deal with the Biblical text apart from priestly veto... For the word "German" he would gladly have substituted the word "human" because he was concerned to comment on "the primary text of human existence," finding there, as in the Bible, the universal themes of suffering and joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60985]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad they've been able to pull together after consolidation. It seems like they have good teachers at both middle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad they've been able to pull together after consolidation. It seems like they have good teachers at both middle schools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look through hundreds of online (applications) each year, summer camp counselors are almost always a hit because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look through hundreds of online (applications) each year, summer camp counselors are almost always a hit because they know what they're getting into. They choose to work with kids again, so they generally like it and relate well with them and the kids really pick up on that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32200</guid></item></channel></rss>