<?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[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945   The very strength and facility of the pessimists' case at once poses us a problem. If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Men are fools, perhaps; but hardly so foolish as that. The direct inference from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous root, from senseless work to a workman infinitely wise, staggers belief. The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must have always been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Junior Blind Olympics provides an inspirational opportunity for blind and visually impaired children to challenge their abilities, surmount sight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37447]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Junior Blind Olympics provides an inspirational opportunity for blind and visually impaired children to challenge their abilities, surmount sight barriers and achieve their dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gloaming comes, the day is spent, The sun goes out of sight,  And painted is the occident  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gloaming comes, the day is spent, The sun goes out of sight,  And painted is the occident   With purple sanguine bright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another."   - Laertius Diogenes, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61681]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which belongs to another."   - Laertius Diogenes,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is man's true touchstone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom they have injured they also hate. [Lat., Quos laeserunt et oderunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom they have injured they also hate. [Lat., Quos laeserunt et oderunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch the goblet no more! It will make thy heart sore  To its very core! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch the goblet no more! It will make thy heart sore  To its very core!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23398]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace,love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our crews arrived, they found patients with symptoms that were consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34391]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our crews arrived, they found patients with symptoms that were consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14550]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that's the world in a nutshell, which is an appropriate receptacle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17836]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do good and be evil spoken of, is kingly. [Lat., Bene facere et male audire regium est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers,  And to thy state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers,  And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight.   I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47311]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave;  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave;  Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.   Love tends life a little grace,    A few sad smiles; and then,     Both are laid in one cold place,      In the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am responsible only to God and history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am responsible only to God and history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dick has to be one of the greatest guys there is. If (the Bills) take him, I know they're going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dick has to be one of the greatest guys there is. If (the Bills) take him, I know they're going to get a real honest, hard-working, and sincere coach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64301]]></link><description><![CDATA[All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into God's hands let us now -- for the coming year, and for all the years of time, and for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into God's hands let us now -- for the coming year, and for all the years of time, and for Eternity -- commend our spirits. Whether for the Church or for ourselves, let us not take ourselves into our own hands, or choose our own lot. "My times are in Thy hand." He loveth the Church, which He died to purchase, His own Body, and all the members of the Body, better than we can; He loveth us better and more wisely than we ourselves He who made us loveth us better than we who unmade ourselves; He who died for us, better than we who destroy ourselves: He who would sanctify us for a Holy Temple unto Himself, better than we who have defiled what He has hallowed. Fear we not, therefore, anything which threateneth, shrink we not back from anything which falleth on us. Rather let us, though with trembling, hold up our hearts to Him, to make them His Own, in what way He willeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15439]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you any relation to your brother Marv?(spoken to announcer Steve Albert) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you any relation to your brother Marv?(spoken to announcer Steve Albert)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andy Cutler is very excited about the chance to compete at the Maymont Festival as are all of our runners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Andy Cutler is very excited about the chance to compete at the Maymont Festival as are all of our runners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57879]]></link><description><![CDATA[If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, by Extortion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  You rob, and spoile, and eat his people as bread, by Extortion, and bribery, and deceitful waights and measures, and deluding oathes in buying and selling, and then come hither, and so make God your Receiver, and his house a den of Thieves. His house is Sanctum Sanctorum, The holiest of holies, and you make it onely Sanctuarium: It should be a place sanctified by your devotions, and you make it onely a Sanctuary to priviledge Maelfactors, a place that may redeeme you from the ill opinion of men, who must in charity be bound to thinke well of you, because they see you in here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49567]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65308]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far, we've had 7.36 inches (of rain) for the year. Normal is about 4.51, so we're well above it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38407]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far, we've had 7.36 inches (of rain) for the year. Normal is about 4.51, so we're well above it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4092]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43974]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinderor control the firm resolve of a determined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21971]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinderor control the firm resolve of a determined soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate;  How can I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57128]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate;  How can I see the gay, the brave, the young,   Fall in the cloud of war, and lie unsung!    In joys of conquest he resigns his breath,     And, filled with England's glory, smiles in death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25784]]></link><description><![CDATA[In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8784]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8784</guid></item></channel></rss>