<?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[Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   I met the society and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788   I met the society and explained to them ... the original design of the Methodists, namely, not to be a distinct party, but to stir up all parties, ... to worship God in spirit and in truth; but the Church of England in particular, to which they belonged from the beginning. With this view I have uniformly gone on for fifty years, never varying from the doctrine of the Church at all; nor from her discipline, of choice, but of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no clue where they came from, ... We don't know if someone raised them and let them go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30710]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no clue where they came from, ... We don't know if someone raised them and let them go or they got loose. We just don't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The water owns a power Divine, And conscious blushes into wine;  Its very nature changed displays   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The water owns a power Divine, And conscious blushes into wine;  Its very nature changed displays   The power Divine that it obeys.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4332]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable tocomplain about what you have than it is to ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22373]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable tocomplain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For our men's relay team to come home as All-Americans shows the kind of success they're going to have in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32749]]></link><description><![CDATA[For our men's relay team to come home as All-Americans shows the kind of success they're going to have in the outdoor season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45773]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have two drivers winning among themselves, the races become too predictable. What we need and what Formula One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37492]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have two drivers winning among themselves, the races become too predictable. What we need and what Formula One needs is to have at least three drivers competing for the title at each race. This opens out the field and there is much more interest from the spectators and fans,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage- all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14327]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the task when many share the toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the task when many share the toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thine, as then, the healing virtue goes Into our hearts -- that is the Father's plan. From heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8196]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thine, as then, the healing virtue goes Into our hearts -- that is the Father's plan. From heart to heart it sinks, it steals, it flows, From these that know thee still infecting those. Here is my heart -- from thine, Lord, fill it up, That I may offer it as the holy cup Of thy communion to my every man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September,  February hath xxviii alone,   And all the rest have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September,  February hath xxviii alone,   And all the rest have xxxi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no one greater than the onewho realizes and admits his own mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46220]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no one greater than the onewho realizes and admits his own mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a very good option for people out there, for severe acne when other prescription medications have not worked. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37752]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a very good option for people out there, for severe acne when other prescription medications have not worked. We're hoping after the first month, this all kind of calms down. I'm sure it will be a good program eventually.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/988]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're passing through, and this is the one place they can learn about the state, about blues, civil rights, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41130]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're passing through, and this is the one place they can learn about the state, about blues, civil rights, the Civil War, cotton ... and also the history and significance of this National Historic Landmark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white,  So full of gladness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58268]]></link><description><![CDATA[O summer day beside the joyous sea! O summer day so wonderful and white,  So full of gladness and so full of pain!   Forever and forever shalt thou be    To some the gravestone of a dead delight,     To some the landmark of a new domain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long on the wave reflected lustres play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long on the wave reflected lustres play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,  Displays distinguished merit, is a noble   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,  Displays distinguished merit, is a noble   Of Nature's own creating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44678]]></link><description><![CDATA[They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great strokes make not sweete musick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great strokes make not sweete musick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2798]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38317]]></link><description><![CDATA[For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been told that we probably will not be able to get home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40061]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been told that we probably will not be able to get home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. . -Charles Kuralt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47474]]></link><description><![CDATA[In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9579]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions: first, her father slain;  Next, your son gone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51272]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions: first, her father slain;  Next, your son gone, and he most violent author   Of his own just remove; the people muddied,    Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers     For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly      In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia       Divided from herself and her fair judgment,        Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;         Last, and as much containing as all these,          Her brother is in secret come from France,           Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,            And wants not buzzers to infect his ear             With pestilent speeches of his father's death,              Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,               Will nothing stick our person to arraign                In ear and ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could get the public as involved and as informed about politics as they are about Monday Night Football, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57735]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could get the public as involved and as informed about politics as they are about Monday Night Football, we would not have as many problems. People have to get off their duffs and participate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yee have many strings to your bowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yee have many strings to your bowe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It saves nuisance. More companies will probably have an appetite for instruments that otherwise would have triggered bifurcation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41700]]></link><description><![CDATA[It saves nuisance. More companies will probably have an appetite for instruments that otherwise would have triggered bifurcation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62624]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is only patience. [Fr., Le Genie, c'est la patience.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're establishing an e-mail list to let people know about the events. We're going to use the list to let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34456]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're establishing an e-mail list to let people know about the events. We're going to use the list to let people know our First Friday happenings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10564]]></link><description><![CDATA[... not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10564</guid></item></channel></rss>