<?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[The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A supreme social challenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A supreme social challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's shooting about 90 percent from the free throw line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33766]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's shooting about 90 percent from the free throw line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34993]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not worthy to carry the buckler unto him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare,  Gin ye'll consent to be his bride, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4898]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare,  Gin ye'll consent to be his bride,   Nor think o'Donald mair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often despise what is most useful to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57097]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often despise what is most useful to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[When we filmed Animal House, I] found John [Belushi] astonishingly shy and vulnerable. Rather than being a confident established star, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39462]]></link><description><![CDATA[[When we filmed Animal House, I] found John [Belushi] astonishingly shy and vulnerable. Rather than being a confident established star, he seemed nervous about meeting everyone, about fitting in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a snowball that turned into an avalanche. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35459]]></link><description><![CDATA[a snowball that turned into an avalanche.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As if thou e'er wert angry But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred  Can bring more to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As if thou e'er wert angry But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred  Can bring more to the making up of a man,   Than can be hoped from thee; thou art his creature;    And did he not, each morning, new create thee,     Thou'dst stink and be forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make an efficient choice in moments of indecision, you establish more effectiveness within a given time span, saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6078]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make an efficient choice in moments of indecision, you establish more effectiveness within a given time span, saving energy and stress. That's a time shift. William Jennings Bryan Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole team looks good and we didn't give them any chances, O'Connor and Murray were our best players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole team looks good and we didn't give them any chances, O'Connor and Murray were our best players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biography is the only true history ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biography is the only true history]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897 To die of love, O martyrdom most blest!   For this I long, this is my heart's desire; My exile ends; I soon will be at rest.   Ye Cherubim, lend, lend to me your lyre! O dart of Seraphim, O flame of love,   Consume me wholly; hear my ardent cry! Jesu, make real my dream! Come Holy Dove!   Of love I die!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have much larger student bodies to select team members from, and some of them have as many as eight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37995]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have much larger student bodies to select team members from, and some of them have as many as eight coaches for different subjects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23803]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the growling man who lives a dog's life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1312]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the growling man who lives a dog's life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25481]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   All angels, all saints, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379   All angels, all saints, all the devils, all the world shall know all the deeds that ever thou didest, though thou have been shriven of them and contrite. But this knowledge shall be no shame to thee if that thou be saved, but rather a witness to God -- right as we read of the deeds of Mary Magdalene [as] her witness to God and not to her reproof.   ... Middle English Sermons  July 20, 2002 Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566   Our union with God -- his presence with us, in which our aloneness is banished and the meaning and full purpose of human existence is realized -- consists chiefly in a conversational relationship with God while we are each consistently and deeply engaged as his friend and colaborer in the affairs of the kingdom of the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been subject to politics as long as I've been alive, thirty-five years, starting with the New Deal, going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been subject to politics as long as I've been alive, thirty-five years, starting with the New Deal, going into the Second World War, the Cold War, Korea, the whole thing. So, I've been affected by it and hence since I've made my art, my art must reflect my political experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63414]]></link><description><![CDATA[I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a controversial band, so big that everyone wants to hate us. We get a lot of bad press. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32555]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a controversial band, so big that everyone wants to hate us. We get a lot of bad press. I don't listen to it. We take it with a grain of salt and keep moving on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's real special to be a part of. He's a great coach and he deserves it. He pushes us and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34100]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's real special to be a part of. He's a great coach and he deserves it. He pushes us and expects a lot of us. We didn't know until the last field goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have notyet learned how to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictum is what a court thinks but is afraid to decide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt;  You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule   Should ever be kept at the front;--    Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head     And kick every worriment out of the bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hajj period is important because of the large number of movements of people from around the world into one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hajj period is important because of the large number of movements of people from around the world into one location,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48775]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no honour, there is no griefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56293</guid></item></channel></rss>