<?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[Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no question Blagojevich is vulnerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33403]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no question Blagojevich is vulnerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12209]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have a general idea of the numbers, but when we reach this point, it is important to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31248]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have a general idea of the numbers, but when we reach this point, it is important to have a precise idea of the numbers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a strange injury. When he came off in the first innings he noticed a slight swelling under his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a strange injury. When he came off in the first innings he noticed a slight swelling under his knee. There was no pain but we thought we'd have it scanned and it came back with something to do with the ligament pulling away from the hamstring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was incredible how strong the results were. The only things they have on their minds are guns, bullets, death ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41960]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was incredible how strong the results were. The only things they have on their minds are guns, bullets, death and a fear of the US occupation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people "the cops." But you know, sometimes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people "the cops." But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12835]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us have our troubles. But no matter how unhappy we are, life has to carry on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24975]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us have our troubles. But no matter how unhappy we are, life has to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. [Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born ostentatious. They will list my name in the dictionary someday. They will use 'Imeldific' to mean ostentatious extravagance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But they will also do the minimum to stop people from going to fight in Iraq to avoid a sectarian ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28235]]></link><description><![CDATA[But they will also do the minimum to stop people from going to fight in Iraq to avoid a sectarian conflict at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Objectivity is a false god. We are human beings and we screw up or have flaws that are hidden from us. But fairness and balance are possible. Not stereotyping people we write about is possible. We can be skeptical without being cynical,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starting in April, the lowest tides are in the morning, so that's when we schedule the digs. These morning digs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Starting in April, the lowest tides are in the morning, so that's when we schedule the digs. These morning digs tend to be very popular, partly because we often get good weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the mischief is done the door is shut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50532]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the mischief is done the door is shut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47632]]></link><description><![CDATA[A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants. [Lat., Multa petentibus  Desunt multa; bene est cui deus obtulit   Parca quod satis est manu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think people really want to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38797]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think people really want to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53546]]></link><description><![CDATA[While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who seeks for aid Must show how service sought can be repaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who seeks for aid Must show how service sought can be repaid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the fatt's in the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16015]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the fatt's in the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tougher the job, the greater the reward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's a man, But when you see a king, you see the work  Of many thousand men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's a man, But when you see a king, you see the work  Of many thousand men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49310]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has death his fopperies? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Has death his fopperies?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  True progress is not found in breaking away from the old ways, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  True progress is not found in breaking away from the old ways, but in abiding in the teaching of Christ and His Spirit in the Church. There is an apparent contradiction here, for how can we abide, and yet advance? It is a paradox, like much else in scripture; but Christian experience proves it true. Those make the best progress in religion who hold fast by the faith once for all delivered to the saints, and not those who drift away from their moorings, rudderless upon a sea of doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is seldom that any liberty is lost all at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least one time in your life, train with the will to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61586]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least one time in your life, train with the will to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice delayed is justice denied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice delayed is justice denied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom: the desire for desires ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom: the desire for desires]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14134]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's good to shut up sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's good to shut up sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  Every other creature in nature is simply itself, without this discord which is our constant lot. That is why we can study everything else in nature much more surely than we can study ourselves. With ourselves, all we have to go on is an occasional glimpse of some small part of the truth, and we must be content with that, knowing that we are truly known by Him who alone knows us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many different voice and languages; but there is but one voice of the peoples when you are declared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45797]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many different voice and languages; but there is but one voice of the peoples when you are declared to be the true "Father of your country." [Lat., Vox diversa sonat: populorum est vox tamen una,  Cum verus Patriae diceris esse Pater.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45797</guid></item></channel></rss>