<?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[It adds to the glory both of soule and body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49557]]></link><description><![CDATA[It adds to the glory both of soule and body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50249]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard for the young filmmaker not to envision immediate popularity, that being affected by the fact that his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15673]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard for the young filmmaker not to envision immediate popularity, that being affected by the fact that his work will unlikely be perceived entirely as he intended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is just how our season has gone so far. We play really well but haven't been able to finish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32724]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is just how our season has gone so far. We play really well but haven't been able to finish on the ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWB could not inform DFAT and the UN that that debt was being paid out of these two (wheat) contracts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38435]]></link><description><![CDATA[AWB could not inform DFAT and the UN that that debt was being paid out of these two (wheat) contracts without disclosing that the actions in 1995/1996 had themselves been outside the sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4198]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44150]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -Spanish proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -Spanish proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do we think that when the day has been idly spent and squandered away by us, we shall be fit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do we think that when the day has been idly spent and squandered away by us, we shall be fit to work when the night and darkness come -- when our understanding is weak, and our memory frail, and our will crooked, and by long custom of sinning obstinately bent the wrong way, what can we then do in religion? What reasonable or acceptable service can we then perform to God? When our candle is just sinking into the socket, how shall our light "so shine before men that they may see our good works"?... I will not pronounce anything concerning the impossibility of a death-bed repentance, but I am sure that it is very difficult, and, I believe, very rare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science does not know its debt to imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science does not know its debt to imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and mind the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For birth control, I rely on my personality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4275]]></link><description><![CDATA[For birth control, I rely on my personality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. -Loretta Girzartis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And both were young, and one was beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62565]]></link><description><![CDATA[And both were young, and one was beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May:  Waiting for the pleasant rambles   Where the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May:  Waiting for the pleasant rambles   Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles,    Where the woodbine alternating,     Scent the dewy way;      Ah! my heart is weary, waiting,       Waiting for the May.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24179]]></link><description><![CDATA[And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite all of the known benefits of exercise, there are also well-documented associations between acute episodes of exertion and sudden ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite all of the known benefits of exercise, there are also well-documented associations between acute episodes of exertion and sudden cardiac death. Although relatively rare, these deaths commonly occur in an unexpected fashion among those who appear quite healthy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53674]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1429]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1899]]></link><description><![CDATA[For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only lose what you cling to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4954]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only lose what you cling to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52721]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that. . . you really must make the self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These grass fires are getting very deadly. They burn homes down, they kill people, so this is not something to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32753]]></link><description><![CDATA[These grass fires are getting very deadly. They burn homes down, they kill people, so this is not something to be taken lightly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have to have faith, I have experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have to have faith, I have experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9976]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11768]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down."  He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke.  I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1837]]></link><description><![CDATA[At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On offense, it's important for us to have good cuts and a lot of movement off the ball. Once we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39640]]></link><description><![CDATA[On offense, it's important for us to have good cuts and a lot of movement off the ball. Once we catch the ball, we have to be very strong with it. Quick guys usually have quick hands and step in the passing lanes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11107]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27483]]></link><description><![CDATA[War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5683]]></link><description><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They came in shifts. It went on like that for hours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42000]]></link><description><![CDATA[They came in shifts. It went on like that for hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that often you see a contract settle without concessions in this day and age. (At the last Central ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32800]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that often you see a contract settle without concessions in this day and age. (At the last Central Labor Council meeting) someone reported that a union took a wage freeze but kept their health insurance. Today that's a win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4719]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow   He would be coy, and would not love at all;    Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought,     Than love united to a jealous thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23155</guid></item></channel></rss>