<?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[I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51158]]></link><description><![CDATA[He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27128]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62043]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63684]]></link><description><![CDATA[A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48776]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14578]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57834]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future has a way of arriving unannounced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19419]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future has a way of arriving unannounced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death to all fanatics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death to all fanatics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is very game. Maybe, in his own way, he found a little extra incentive out of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is very game. Maybe, in his own way, he found a little extra incentive out of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgotten is forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgotten is forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If these few meters are not a problem, as they say, why don't they go back to the June 4, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29889]]></link><description><![CDATA[If these few meters are not a problem, as they say, why don't they go back to the June 4, 1967, line?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39914]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40804]]></link><description><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man has enthusiasm !0 minutes, another !0 days, but it is the man who has it !0 years who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21737]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man has enthusiasm !0 minutes, another !0 days, but it is the man who has it !0 years who makes a success of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;  And amidst the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up and down! Up and down! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown;  And amidst the flashing and feathery foam   The Stormy Petrel finds a home,--    A home, if such a place may be,     For her who lives on the wide, wide sea,      On the craggy ice, in the frozen air,       And only seeketh her rocky lair        To warm her young and to teach them spring         At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action is the real measure of intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action is the real measure of intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46612]]></link><description><![CDATA[However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you deal in camels, make the doors high ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11148]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you deal in camels, make the doors high]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10757]]></link><description><![CDATA[To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I also have this incredible love for women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40043]]></link><description><![CDATA[I also have this incredible love for women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9240]]></link><description><![CDATA[My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so much yet act as if life and society have conspired to oppress them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recruited him to come here and play football, not to look cute. He's been doing that ever since Day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36937]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recruited him to come here and play football, not to look cute. He's been doing that ever since Day One.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27418]]></link><description><![CDATA[So the gods bless me, When all our offices have been oppressed  With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept   With drunken spilth of wine, when every room    Hath blazed with lights and brayed with minstrelsy,     I have retired me to a wasteful cock      And set mine eyes at flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent,   For Whigs allow no force but argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're moving ahead. We should've been in operation by now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're moving ahead. We should've been in operation by now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No problem is too big to run away from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64474]]></link><description><![CDATA[No problem is too big to run away from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56006]]></link><description><![CDATA[So wise so young, they say, do never live long. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46276</guid></item></channel></rss>