<?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[How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65931]]></link><description><![CDATA[How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  Jesus, like all other religious leaders, taught men to pray, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  Jesus, like all other religious leaders, taught men to pray, that is, He taught them to look away from the world of ordinary sense impressions and to open the heart and spirit to God; yet He is always insistent that religion must be related to life. It is only by contact with God that a better quality of living can be achieved -- and Jesus Himself, as the records show, speent many hours in communion with God -- yet that new quality of life has to be both demonstrated and tested in the ordinary rough-and-tumble of plain living. It is in ordinary human relationships that the validity of a man's communion with God is to be proved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a pretty good game. The refs called two penalties at the end and it helped us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42302]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a pretty good game. The refs called two penalties at the end and it helped us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49686]]></link><description><![CDATA[One faire day in winter makes not birds merrie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With government funding being cut back, charities are being hard-pressed to turn away money that's legal. We don't get into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33563]]></link><description><![CDATA[With government funding being cut back, charities are being hard-pressed to turn away money that's legal. We don't get into why people give money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're predominantly supplying football teams, but we have a local basketball player whose doctor has recommended the AirArmor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're predominantly supplying football teams, but we have a local basketball player whose doctor has recommended the AirArmor to avoid re-injuring his MCL,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26157]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No injury can be complained of by a consenting party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50555]]></link><description><![CDATA[No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies have advertised ... that they're an equal opportunity company, and yet they're having difficulty finding the talented people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies have advertised ... that they're an equal opportunity company, and yet they're having difficulty finding the talented people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has two countries, his own and France. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has two countries, his own and France.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still he fishes that catches one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still he fishes that catches one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more,  The reign of violence is o'er!" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10789]]></link><description><![CDATA[An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more,  The reign of violence is o'er!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45976]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The contractors that they're trying to hire to do these repairs are the same people that have been displaced or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The contractors that they're trying to hire to do these repairs are the same people that have been displaced or are working on everybody else's stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49988]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61061]]></link><description><![CDATA["A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would of course speak with any interested shareholder of relevant thoughts and perspectives. We have informed Icahn that we'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would of course speak with any interested shareholder of relevant thoughts and perspectives. We have informed Icahn that we'd be happy to meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius. [Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius. [Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue,  While insects of each tiny size ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loud is the summer's busy song The smallest breeze can find a tongue,  While insects of each tiny size   Grow teasing with their melodies,    Till noon burns with its blistering breath     Around, and day lies still as death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5941]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is flat and was meant to be piled up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is flat and was meant to be piled up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a chance to get a joint document of principles tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28843]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a chance to get a joint document of principles tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are saying they train with them, why can't they go to state, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22276]]></link><description><![CDATA[To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64375]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quote others only in order the better to express myself. •Michel De Montaigne    Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. •Jean Rostand    I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11108]]></link><description><![CDATA[FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The budget surplus is real, not imagined, and it means that the tax is no longer needed, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The budget surplus is real, not imagined, and it means that the tax is no longer needed,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10999]]></link><description><![CDATA[We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is wine upon the lips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is wine upon the lips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe we will be in the black, ... What I'm trying to do is a balancing act. The more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41851]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe we will be in the black, ... What I'm trying to do is a balancing act. The more money we make, the more we put in the field. That's the goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All autobiography is self-indulgent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3226]]></link><description><![CDATA[All autobiography is self-indulgent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mozart is sweet sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mozart is sweet sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2924</guid></item></channel></rss>