<?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[Literature is the thought of thinking Souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ is our Passover! And we will keep the feast  With the new leaven,   The bread of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ is our Passover! And we will keep the feast  With the new leaven,   The bread of heaven:    All welcome, even the least!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.   - John Ruskin, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.   - John Ruskin,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17959]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven means to be one with God.   - Confucius, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven means to be one with God.   - Confucius,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the worst come to the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the worst come to the worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daryl will be a great addition to our organization. With the high level of competition in this league, you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daryl will be a great addition to our organization. With the high level of competition in this league, you can never have too much information. If we combine the best information with our basketball people we should be able to make the most informed and best decisions in the NBA. Daryl will be an important part of that process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, they tend to get (up to) one-and-a-half percent of traffic, so you sign up a couple billion-dollar exchanges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30309]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, they tend to get (up to) one-and-a-half percent of traffic, so you sign up a couple billion-dollar exchanges and you are in good shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44476]]></link><description><![CDATA[How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity of it is in strong suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evidently the pepper spray had no effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evidently the pepper spray had no effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The European Union door is shut and the Iranians have thrown away the key. This was a symbolic slap in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The European Union door is shut and the Iranians have thrown away the key. This was a symbolic slap in the face for the Europeans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tony (Queen) and Ray (String) did a phenomenal job defensively on Hurtado. We executed our game plan and forced him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tony (Queen) and Ray (String) did a phenomenal job defensively on Hurtado. We executed our game plan and forced him to his left all night and got him frustrated. Not many teams have been able to shut him down. He is really a special player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus segnitiae.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20345]]></link><description><![CDATA[We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. [Lat., Difficultas patrocinia praeteximus segnitiae.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10775]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is no place for sissies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is no place for sissies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57006]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Daughter is a Little Girl who grows up to be a Friend ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5931]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Daughter is a Little Girl who grows up to be a Friend]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38820]]></link><description><![CDATA[How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17606]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63149]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd rather have kids there that are going to do what you ask them to do, even if they don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33377]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd rather have kids there that are going to do what you ask them to do, even if they don't have the kind of talent as your star players. It wasn't hard to let some of our better players go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seeing if we can get some personalities together. Once they believe in one another, and they start competing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38651]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seeing if we can get some personalities together. Once they believe in one another, and they start competing for every point, I think we will be a very good team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57574]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This underpins our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic on the growth outlook and will eventually end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This underpins our belief that the Bank of England is too optimistic on the growth outlook and will eventually end up trimming interest rates by a further 25 basis points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48366]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The false lapwynge, full of trecherye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The false lapwynge, full of trecherye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52995]]></link><description><![CDATA[To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America's newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13934]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62977]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47119]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing that Western North Carolina can do is you've got to get some winners, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing that Western North Carolina can do is you've got to get some winners,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asylum of the oppressed of every nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   Our critical day is not the very day of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before;  The danger o'er, both are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before;  The danger o'er, both are alike requited,   God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of rain; Grateful for joy, with an endless thanksgiving, Grateful for laughter -- and grateful for pain. Lord, I am glad for the young April's wonder, Glad for the fulness of long summer days; And now when the spring and my heart are asunder, Lord, I give thanks for the dark autumn ways. Sun, bloom, and blossom, O Lord, I remember, The dream of the spring and its joy I recall; But now in the silence and pain of November, Lord, I give thanks to Thee, Giver of all!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I brought them here to make a good life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I brought them here to make a good life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3169]]></link><description><![CDATA[No work of art is worth the bones of a Pomeranian Grenadier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48297</guid></item></channel></rss>