<?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 friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16985]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give a lot of credit to Wilmington for their win in the first game. They strung together some hits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37540]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give a lot of credit to Wilmington for their win in the first game. They strung together some hits and their pitcher pitched a great game. Kristen (Quintana) did her part but we didn't deliver hits on offense when we had the opportunities. We left too many people on base and hit too many fly balls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of a generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of a generation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62184]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . .  I have found that a friend may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16865]]></link><description><![CDATA[In friendship I early was taught to believe; . . . .  I have found that a friend may profess, yet deceive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our goal is to help everyone be involved in the full life of the church, not just Sunday morning services. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our goal is to help everyone be involved in the full life of the church, not just Sunday morning services.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould  The purple oak-leaf falls; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould  The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough   Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Chirac said recently almost with the tone of 'I told you so' that what he considers blind loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32537]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Chirac said recently almost with the tone of 'I told you so' that what he considers blind loyalty to the U.S. doesn't get you much in return,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an adorable dog. He obviously belonged to someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35245]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an adorable dog. He obviously belonged to someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29795]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Just as they made rivers of blood flow in our countries, we will make volcanoes of anger erupt in their countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live;  Ours is her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54044]]></link><description><![CDATA[O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live;  Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, is prayer in the deepest sense. This is essential prayer: uttered or unexpressed, it is equally prayer. It is the soul's desire after God going forth in a manifestation, ... the soul striving after God. This is a prayer that may exist without ceasing, consisting, as it does, not in doing or saying this or that, but in temper and attitude of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great win for Cliff. His opponent is a tough guy from a tough gym and is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great win for Cliff. His opponent is a tough guy from a tough gym and is one of the top fighters at that gym, but Cliff had the endurance. He had a lot of heart and persevered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole is more than the sum of its parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44708]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole is more than the sum of its parts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word  Is Satisfaction: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54710]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word  Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,   And pointed satire runs him through and through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be mean or anything, but I don't like girls, because they just want to bother you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be mean or anything, but I don't like girls, because they just want to bother you all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50154]]></link><description><![CDATA[A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55674]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15095]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it to climbing up a hill,   Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:    For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,     And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"      To have, when the original is dust,       A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we found out that J.P. would not be available for the season, we recognized an opportunity to get David ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31850]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we found out that J.P. would not be available for the season, we recognized an opportunity to get David and we went for it, David is a strong athlete who is getting better every day. He can play singles and doubles, he gets you some easy points with his big lefty serve, and he works hard in practice. We will make him feel right at home here in New York.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toilets. These men should not be encouraged, their fantasies are sadly low-rent and unimaginative. Affect an aloof, cool demeanor as soon as any man tries to draw you out. Unless, of course, he's the pilot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52944]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf; 'tis sweet to view on high  The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's certainly an honor. When I got the call I didn't sure how to react, to tell you the truth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's certainly an honor. When I got the call I didn't sure how to react, to tell you the truth. It wasn't until my wife's gynecologist called and congratulated me that I figured we were onto something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7528]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men turn to is more important than what they turn from, even if that to which they turn is only a higher moral truth; but to turn to Christ is far more important than to turn to higher moral truth: it is to turn the face towards Him in whom is all moral truth; it is to turn to HIm in whom is not only the virtue which corresponds to the known vice from which the penitent wishes to flee, but all virtue; it is to turn the face to all holiness, all purity, all grace. It was this repentance which the apostles preached after Pentecost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War challenges virtually every other institution of society--the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61199]]></link><description><![CDATA[War challenges virtually every other institution of society--the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41011]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body is the terminal incubator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29518]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body is the terminal incubator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three,  Climb up here to pray;   Burghers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54582]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three,  Climb up here to pray;   Burghers and dames, at summer's prime,    Ride out to church from Chamberry,     Dight with mantles gay,      But else it is a lonely time       Round the Church of Brou.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54582</guid></item></channel></rss>