<?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[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29407]]></link><description><![CDATA[These oil companies are making profit hand over fist as consumers are suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16821]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47864]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again:  The king ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king of France with twenty thousand men Went up the hill, and then came down again:  The king of Spain with twenty thousand more   Climbed the same hill the French had climbed before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His pitch count went a little high because of the first couple of innings. We were hoping he could get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41143]]></link><description><![CDATA[His pitch count went a little high because of the first couple of innings. We were hoping he could get the win, but we don't want to burn him out because that could carry over the next start.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaming gains a loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaming gains a loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kingdom of the LionTHE beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kingdom of the LionTHE beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be. During his reign he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity. The Hare said, Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong. And after the Hare said this, he ran for his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill Not. Cause no pain.Mahavira, founder of the Jain religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill Not. Cause no pain.Mahavira, founder of the Jain religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One size does not fit all in any regulation. When it is clear that the smaller companies are bearing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30803]]></link><description><![CDATA[One size does not fit all in any regulation. When it is clear that the smaller companies are bearing a larger part of the burden, then it really has to be addressed. I don't think that was the intent of the legislation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I threw him back. Then I held him on his back for a minute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I threw him back. Then I held him on his back for a minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate all children of precocious talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate all children of precocious talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. Th' imaginary relish is so sweet  That it enchants my sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. Th' imaginary relish is so sweet  That it enchants my sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What silly people wits are! [Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61807]]></link><description><![CDATA[What silly people wits are! [Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occasionally, the chef gets creative and comes up with a new one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fumes spread from the construction area into the records office. Several employees reported smelling noxious fumes. Several became lightheaded. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fumes spread from the construction area into the records office. Several employees reported smelling noxious fumes. Several became lightheaded. A few became nauseated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13867]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good win, but we've still got a long way to go. We've still got to keep working ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33452]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good win, but we've still got a long way to go. We've still got to keep working hard everyday to get better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since twelve honest men have decided the cause, And were judges of fact, tho' not judges of laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since twelve honest men have decided the cause, And were judges of fact, tho' not judges of laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61670]]></link><description><![CDATA[He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16610]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The challenge, which it's aggressively taken on with the Target2010 project, is to shape its explosive growth by generating quality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The challenge, which it's aggressively taken on with the Target2010 project, is to shape its explosive growth by generating quality jobs and opportunities for its citizens versus quantity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and they are ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and they are ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep down even the most hardened criminal is starving for the same thing that motivates the innocent baby: Love and acceptance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  Orthodoxy is, in the Church, very much what prejudice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893  Orthodoxy is, in the Church, very much what prejudice is in the single mind. It is the premature conceit of certainty. It is the treatment of the imperfect as if it were the perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.  There is a crack in everything.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.  There is a crack in everything.   That's how the light gets in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce,  As a grave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/426]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce,  As a grave matron would to dance with girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11257]]></link><description><![CDATA[To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties; give me a cigar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48725]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties; give me a cigar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Ye have enemies; for who can live on this earth without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430  Ye have enemies; for who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can thy enemy so hurt thee by his violence, as thou dost hurt thyself if thou love him not. And let it not seem to you impossible to love him. Believe first that it can be done, and pray that the will of God may be done in you. For what good can thy neighbor's ill do to thee? If he had no ill, he would not even be thine enemy. Wish him well, then, that he may end his ill, and he will be thine enemy no longer. For it is not the human nature in him that is at enmity with thee, but his sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8442</guid></item></channel></rss>