<?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[Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57840]]></link><description><![CDATA[No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains To tax our labours and excise our brains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time I've ever had any in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would prefer a total stock market fund if it's going to be their only investment, but if it's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would prefer a total stock market fund if it's going to be their only investment, but if it's the first of many funds I'd go with the S&P 500 Index Fund.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to itand helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces -- self-denial, readiness to the cross -- they all work and help faith. Yet when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do. Not to be surprised with any thing is the substance of human wisdom; not to be surprised with death is a great part of the substance of our spiritual wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10858]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at each situation on a case-by-case basis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at each situation on a case-by-case basis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect year-on-year inflation this month (December) to stand at around 18 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43757]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boxing purists, quite naturally, question Tyson's appetite for victory. Mills Lane should have stopped the fight before Tyson took a second helping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51370]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52740]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/619]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Lord, forgive -- That I have dwelt too long on Golgotha, My wracked eyes fixed On Thy poor, tortured human form upon the cross, And have not seen The lilies in Thy dawn-sweet garden bend To anoint Thy risen feet; nor known the ways Thy radiant spirit walks abroad with men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6295</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[Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14635]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no darkness but ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20375]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no darkness but ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23215]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12746]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday is not a day of the week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday is not a day of the week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you just focus day to day, week to week. He's been the first goalie in the past. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30067]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you just focus day to day, week to week. He's been the first goalie in the past. He won't lose his focus. He'll play another 10 years in the NHL. Game-sharp is just puck after puck (in practice). Since his last game, he's done two hours each day on ice. I think it was a good spot on the road. Sometimes, when you've stayed out a long time, it's better on the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newman, with his clipped mustache and his whiskey-coated growl and his steely self-assurance, is an aristocrat of sleaze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newman, with his clipped mustache and his whiskey-coated growl and his steely self-assurance, is an aristocrat of sleaze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get caught up in defending him, pick your poison. There are more players on that team than just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36193]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get caught up in defending him, pick your poison. There are more players on that team than just Sean Morris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a high school student and this is from a poem I wrote called Sometimes He Wonders. You may split ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27679]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a high school student and this is from a poem I wrote called Sometimes He Wonders. You may split it into different parts if you'd like - right now I'll put it as Unsorted. And He feels so incredibly weak when he has ferociously quarreled against them since his genuine years and has lost. His hopes for a better understanding dissipate as he grows older, and his mind grows less eager to reach a verdict. Having no sense of direction, he roams here, looking above, asking futile questions, even though the answers may be feared. Good by nature, he has learned his survival skills, which will lead him into the real world, and will someday make him a successful individual. Wishing the pressure did not exist, it is a natural instinct to adapt and not to recluse. He rather is a mindless drone than a lonely Hermit, after all. He has no control over his environment, it is the exact opposite. Molded and shaped by his surroundings, he seeks about for himself and his purpose, while this mold slowly deteriorates organic matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35604]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be a celebration of his life, because that's what he wanted, a big old party,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not where we want to be yet. We are working very hard, but there are still a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30566]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not where we want to be yet. We are working very hard, but there are still a lot of things that we need to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Two DogsA man had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Two DogsA man had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house. When he returned home after a good day's sport, he always gave the Housedog a large share of his spoil. The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying, It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate on the fruits of my exertions. The Housedog replied, Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of others. Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18845]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strike the stars with by sublime head. [Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strike the stars with by sublime head. [Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44988]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, you are a lunatic. Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44988</guid></item></channel></rss>