<?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 mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43220]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gray skies are just clouds passing over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52099]]></link><description><![CDATA[As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. - Aphorisms and Reflections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a late-night scene in every town, and everyone has something going on, ... I've heard good stories about (Syracuse); ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a late-night scene in every town, and everyone has something going on, ... I've heard good stories about (Syracuse); this is a very good party town, a good drinking place. I definitely would like to come back and check it out further. Do some more research, as I call it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An excess of courtesy is discourtesy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14442]]></link><description><![CDATA[An excess of courtesy is discourtesy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased,  The which observed, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48463]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased,  The which observed, a man may prophesy,   With a near aim, of the main chance of things    As yet not come to life, which in their seeds     And weak beginnings lie intreasured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little kid I'd read these adventure books. I'd read about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little kid I'd read these adventure books. I'd read about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Every time my dad moved to a new military base, the first thing I'd do was climb the highest hill around, which usually wasn't very high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17631]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47545]]></link><description><![CDATA[All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revolutionary upheavals may change how the world looks but seldom changes the way the world works. Lasting historical change comes not through tidal waves but through the irresistible creeping tide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42614]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almes never make poore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almes never make poore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what seniors are for, to win a ballgame for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37179]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what seniors are for, to win a ballgame for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63800]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of options with stripes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34621]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of options with stripes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/999]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35797]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be very hard for me to do things somebody else's way,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?  My God, no hymn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?  My God, no hymn for Thee? My soul's a shepherd too: a flock it feeds  Of thoughts, and words, and deeds. The pasture is Thy Word, the streams, Thy Grace  Enriching all the place. Shepherd and flock shall sing, and all my powers  Out-sing the daylight hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6145]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22497]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!  Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!  Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree--   It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953   Counter-culture's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953   Counter-culture's glad tidings of revolution by consciousness are neither new nor revolutionary. Christianity has been trying to achieve a revolution by consciousness for two thousand years. Who would deny that Christian consciousness could have changed the world? Yet it was the world that changed Christian consciousness. If everybody adopted a peaceful, loving, generous, noncompetitive lifestyle, we could have something better than counter-culture -- we could have the Kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42852]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wrinkles, the d--d democrats, won't flatter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11864]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wrinkles, the d--d democrats, won't flatter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61741]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is a lot like a game of tennis — those who serve well usually end up winning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is a lot like a game of tennis — those who serve well usually end up winning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5058</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[has destroyed the whole base of life for people and other creatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35608]]></link><description><![CDATA[has destroyed the whole base of life for people and other creatures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A passerby named Larry, our angel, pulled the debris off and got Casey out and took him to safety and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A passerby named Larry, our angel, pulled the debris off and got Casey out and took him to safety and then came back and got me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God, and when they serve to unite us with Him eternally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A weak Invention of the Enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13846]]></link><description><![CDATA[A weak Invention of the Enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34063]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draining out of the employer-based health insurance system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not measure the reality of love by feelings, but by results. Feelings are very delusive. They often depend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8377]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not measure the reality of love by feelings, but by results. Feelings are very delusive. They often depend on mere natural temperament, and the devil wrests them to our hurt. A glowing imagination is apt to seek itself rather than God. But if you are earnest in striving to serve and endure for God's sake, if you persevere amid temptation, dryness, weariness, and desolation, you may rest assured that your love is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17978]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never was anything so inconsistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never was anything so inconsistent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,then Athens ceased to be free and was never free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22327]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must every one be a man of his own fancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must every one be a man of his own fancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentlemans grayhound, and a salt-box; seeke them at the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49025]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentlemans grayhound, and a salt-box; seeke them at the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really, really great to be back. So let's get up there, show them what it's all about. Let's get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really, really great to be back. So let's get up there, show them what it's all about. Let's get back, let's retake the CBC, make it what it can be - a great public broadcaster for all Canadians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15560]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4095]]></link><description><![CDATA[One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge:  All is, I never drink no sperit,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge:  All is, I never drink no sperit,   Nor I haint never signed no pledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44744</guid></item></channel></rss>