<?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[Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a great honor for our school. It shows the improvement we've made. We used to be one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28806]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a great honor for our school. It shows the improvement we've made. We used to be one of the worst athletic programs around, but we've worked hard to get where we are today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18912]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields,   While those unhappy partners of you kind    Wide-hover round you, like the fowls of heaven,     And ask their humble dole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60293]]></link><description><![CDATA[On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. Of this he wrote to James Madison: As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing good ever comes of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing good ever comes of violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41423]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona... I understand what it is to be vulnerable, and I understand what it is to be strong. So anybody who bashes 'sentimental' is missing it. I've seen the toughest guys in the world cry. That macho thing is an old folktale. I'm not afraid of it at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the toothof the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47956]]></link><description><![CDATA[God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the toothof the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have different personnel than the '95 team. We have tough, tough guys who are willing to do whatever it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have different personnel than the '95 team. We have tough, tough guys who are willing to do whatever it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5707]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider your own life-how many times a day does some situation pop up that leads to moments of frustration and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider your own life-how many times a day does some situation pop up that leads to moments of frustration and anxiety? Surrendering your head to your heart in those moments will lead you to balance and fulfillment. As you listen to your spirit, peace follows. So follow your spirit. Build your foundation in your heart. Love must be your innermost and spontaneous response towards every person you encounter. Say to yourself inside, "I just love." Use these words as a key to start the engine running in your heart and watch life brighten with new love and understanding. Surrender to your new awareness and let love unfold the purpose of creation to you. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything great and intelligent is in the minority ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything great and intelligent is in the minority]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Jeremy Taylor gives us some fundamental rules for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Jeremy Taylor gives us some fundamental rules for prayer. And the chief of them is this: "Do not lie to God." And that curt piece of advice, so bluntly thrown down for us, is indeed all-important. Do not burn false fire upon God's altar; do not pose and pretend, either to Him or to yourself, in your religious exercises; do not say more than you mean, or use exagerated language that goes beyond the facts, when speaking to Him whose word is truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was horrible. Especially because it got worse and worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30975]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was horrible. Especially because it got worse and worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   [In nineteenth-century America] religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933   [In nineteenth-century America] religion became a matter of conduct, of good deeds, of works, with only a vague background of faith. It became highly functional, highly pragmatic; it became a guarantee of success, moral and material. "The proper study of mankind is man," was the evasion by which many American divines escaped the necessity for thought about God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The overall strategy over the next five years is to gain control of the border. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The overall strategy over the next five years is to gain control of the border.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide,  Every one lets forth his sprite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide,  Every one lets forth his sprite,   In the churchway paths to glide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. I don’t know. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t. I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10873]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, don't do it halfway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24613]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35197]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27158]]></link><description><![CDATA[He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43953]]></link><description><![CDATA[For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8559]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3186]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.  'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  If the wounds of millions are to be healed, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  If the wounds of millions are to be healed, what other way is there except through forgiveness? Jesus, at least, leaves us no alternative. The command is stern. The terms are set: "But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's disappointing to see a family member hurt. I want him to have as big a year as I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38182]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's disappointing to see a family member hurt. I want him to have as big a year as I want to have for myself. But he's a great player and I know that he's going to be fine, so I trust that he's going to be back to 100 percent pretty soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54421]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is life distilled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22612]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [Lat., Et genus et virtus, nisi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [Lat., Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61399</guid></item></channel></rss>