<?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[Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chalice is ephemeral.Jesus' blood eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44082]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chalice is ephemeral.Jesus' blood eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People make decisions that undermine their goals every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41565]]></link><description><![CDATA[People make decisions that undermine their goals every day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women prefer emotions to reasoning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women prefer emotions to reasoning]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they haven't complied with the legislation, it's an honest mistake, and we will comply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42113]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they haven't complied with the legislation, it's an honest mistake, and we will comply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63620]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20640]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader is important to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19035]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't say that one is technically better than the other, but polymer is in an earlier state of development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't say that one is technically better than the other, but polymer is in an earlier state of development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It came down in buckets that day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It came down in buckets that day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35881]]></link><description><![CDATA[TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confession Of A Pit Fighter ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confession Of A Pit Fighter]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55661]]></link><description><![CDATA[It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are judged of by what you possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50400]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are judged of by what you possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are encouraging locals to create mini- floats using red wagons or big wheel tricycles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are encouraging locals to create mini- floats using red wagons or big wheel tricycles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats need it; we don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats need it; we don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who profits by a crime, commits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51156]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who profits by a crime, commits it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token  Of warning, nodded,--and I exclaim'd: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token  Of warning, nodded,--and I exclaim'd:   "Dear Monarch, forgive what I've spoken!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that dies pays all debts. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56090]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that dies pays all debts. -The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have better spared a better man. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have better spared a better man. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12834]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58287]]></link><description><![CDATA[High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take the blame for this one. Being a senior, I should be able to do more. . . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take the blame for this one. Being a senior, I should be able to do more. . . . I'm not blaming it on that one possession (where he lost it). We were up in the first half and in the second half we didn't jump on them. I don't blame one play. Mistakes happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It basically describes a day in the life of Charlie Brown. The show takes the form of the comic strip, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36903]]></link><description><![CDATA[It basically describes a day in the life of Charlie Brown. The show takes the form of the comic strip, with its separate frames and short vignettes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5302]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46642]]></link><description><![CDATA[My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, "You are a thief."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burgerShe was sued by Amarillo cattle ranchers for saying: I'm stopped. I'll never eat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burgerShe was sued by Amarillo cattle ranchers for saying: I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger and she won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't expect to deliver a baby in the parking lot. It happened in about 12 or 15 minutes, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36856]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't expect to deliver a baby in the parking lot. It happened in about 12 or 15 minutes, and it was over with. It happened so fast I didn't have time to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. I never hit them. I yelled a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52115]]></link><description><![CDATA[We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in whatever state a man be thrown,   'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61876</guid></item></channel></rss>