<?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 man is great by deeds, not by birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65203]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is great by deeds, not by birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? It seems purposeless. Our question of the why of evil assumes the view that the world has a purpose, and what we want to know is how suffering fits into and advances this purpose. The modern view is that suffering has no purpose because nothing that happens has any purpose: the world is run by causes, not by purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; This, too, shall pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45791]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the runs of Iona.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61670]]></link><description><![CDATA[He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For courage mounteth with occasion. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55782]]></link><description><![CDATA[For courage mounteth with occasion. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tall Oak, towering to the skies, The fury of the wind defies,  From age to age, in virtue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tall Oak, towering to the skies, The fury of the wind defies,  From age to age, in virtue strong.   Inured to stand, and suffer wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54981]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18711]]></link><description><![CDATA[The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check,  Richer than doing nothing for a robe,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48204]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check,  Richer than doing nothing for a robe,   Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:    Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine     Yet keeps his book uncrossed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can find my biography in every fable that I read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our experience is that Wal-Mart is a company that cares about the community it serves and is willing to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our experience is that Wal-Mart is a company that cares about the community it serves and is willing to put itself on the line with major issues, not the least of which is bringing missing children home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it Cry 'No recovery.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48205]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it Cry 'No recovery.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brilliant chief, irregularly great, Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major difference is that in the fall we had 22 percent of college students saying we should withdraw all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The major difference is that in the fall we had 22 percent of college students saying we should withdraw all troops and now we only have 11 percent who say that. However, the percentage of college students who think we should withdraw some troops is much higher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far lessthan the long-range risks and costs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21145]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far lessthan the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61395]]></link><description><![CDATA[These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills their law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. -Norman Cousins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55230]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. -Norman Cousins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired, we are scared, denying it doesn't change the truth. Sooner or later we have to put aside our denial and face the world. Head on, guns blazing. De Nile. It's not just a river in Egypt, it's a freakin' ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing about baseball is, it takes one pitch to change a game. He just got the bat head out. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing about baseball is, it takes one pitch to change a game. He just got the bat head out. Every pitcher in America's going to say, 'Darn it, that shouldn't have been hit.' But he hit my pitch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54082]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority ... Let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20428]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same goes for the sausage. I buy it freshly ground and seasonedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âbut with absolutely no unwanted preservatives addedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âfrom a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same goes for the sausage. I buy it freshly ground and seasonedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âbut with absolutely no unwanted preservatives addedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âfrom a local butcher shop, and freeze it (three-quarters of a pound per container) in pint cartons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dog in the Manger A dog lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the oxen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dog in the Manger A dog lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the oxen from eating the hay which had been placed for them. What a selfish Dog! said one of them to his companions; he cannot eat the hay himself, and yet refuses to allow those to eat who can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it is to be, it is up to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it is to be, it is up to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48206]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget what you need to remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget what you need to remember.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a miracle. Everyone was telling us they were probably dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40943]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a miracle. Everyone was telling us they were probably dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted closure. And for him to thank me for being so loyal to him over the years. Instead he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted closure. And for him to thank me for being so loyal to him over the years. Instead he stood up and asked me if I wanted to see his penis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,  Making it momentany as a sound,   Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,    Brief as the lightning in the collied night,     That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,      And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'       The jaws of darkness do devour it up:        So quick bright things come to confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61745]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Job answered and said, No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54306</guid></item></channel></rss>