<?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[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 is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. [Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e custos.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. [Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e custos.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hours fly, Flowers die.  New days,   New ways,    Pass by.     ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hours fly, Flowers die.  New days,   New ways,    Pass by.     Love stays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27721]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it feels good any time you hit a home run. But the guy is only 19 years old. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it feels good any time you hit a home run. But the guy is only 19 years old. He's going to give up his fair share of home runs, but he'll get his share of strikeouts, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44249]]></link><description><![CDATA[A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11609]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11330]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most players on the team only have one or two years experience. Soccer and field hockey strategy as far as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most players on the team only have one or two years experience. Soccer and field hockey strategy as far as field positioning is very similar. The only difference is that you're hitting the ball with a stick instead of your foot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace? Go to God. Do you want peace in four families? Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families? If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46551]]></link><description><![CDATA[A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember she had these long, lovely nails with red varnish, in the middle of this shitty place we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39529]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember she had these long, lovely nails with red varnish, in the middle of this shitty place we were in!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We persevered today. We should be successful here on our home course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30885]]></link><description><![CDATA[We persevered today. We should be successful here on our home course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10220]]></link><description><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am amazed. This is totally different from where we usually go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am amazed. This is totally different from where we usually go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21822]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48573]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7030]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since Heaven's eternal year is thine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since Heaven's eternal year is thine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Robertson is no ordinary citizen, ... has been one of the president's staunchest allies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr. Robertson is no ordinary citizen, ... has been one of the president's staunchest allies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possibly one of the largest thefts in history, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possibly one of the largest thefts in history,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only drink wine, and it's a bit early for that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only drink wine, and it's a bit early for that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66187]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to do more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41715]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to do more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallelujah! Hallelujah! On the third morning He arose,  Bright with victory o'er his foes.   Sing we lauding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hallelujah! Hallelujah! On the third morning He arose,  Bright with victory o'er his foes.   Sing we lauding,    And applauding,     Hallelujah!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promising is the eve of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promising is the eve of giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:  In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63690]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20103</guid></item></channel></rss>