<?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[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10201]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19890]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace at home, peace in the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace at home, peace in the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22128]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - 1963.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divine things, well envelop'd; I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms  Of France ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms  Of France and England, whose very shores look pale   With envy of each other's happiness,    May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction     Plant neighborhood and Christian-like accord      In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance       His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40934]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/548]]></link><description><![CDATA[A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly a quarter of all bottled water crosses national borders to reach consumers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly a quarter of all bottled water crosses national borders to reach consumers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23924]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:  A sadder and a wiser man, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:  A sadder and a wiser man,   He rose the morrow morn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither have I said we have got to do this because of some pharmaceutical advantage there may or may not be. The moral issue is that we should not impoverish this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  As we look out upon history and the world, it is with the same vision of all things in Christ which dominates the perceptions of all believers, without distinction of age, or race, or Church. Not a saint, a thinker, a hero, or a martyr of the Church, but we claim a share in his character, influence and achievements, by confessing the debt we owe to the great tradition which he has enriched by saintly consecration, true thought, or noble conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23713]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65924]]></link><description><![CDATA[If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58248]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the butsyou use today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the butsyou use today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a tightrope with God at the end. If we walk with our eyes down, looking at what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a tightrope with God at the end. If we walk with our eyes down, looking at what is happening right now in our lives, we are likely to waver and fall. However, if we focus at the end of the rope, where God and Heaven await us, we can see past all of the petty troubles this present life and walk more steadily. We may sometimes still stumble, but if we get back up and train our eyes on God once again, He will guide us to the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,  But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.   These laid the world away: poured out the red    Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be     Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene      That men call age, and those who would have been       Their sons, they gave their immortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes vision and courage to create, it takes faith and courage to prove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The release was an American-Iraqi decision and in line with an Iraqi government ruling made in December 2004, but hasn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29824]]></link><description><![CDATA[The release was an American-Iraqi decision and in line with an Iraqi government ruling made in December 2004, but hasn't been enforced until after the elections in an attempt to ease the political pressure in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'!  Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'!  Now meekly calm, now wild in wrath,   He's stampin', and he's jumpin'!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I found most striking in monitoring eviction cases was that judges didn't adjust anything (rent) for hurricane damage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reminded them they are not alone, ... The churches in Chicago are praying for them and they are taking up collections for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You needn't remind me of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50901]]></link><description><![CDATA[You needn't remind me of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5367]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5367</guid></item></channel></rss>