<?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 was prepared to go to Norfolk when the phone call came. It changed my day. I just got on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was prepared to go to Norfolk when the phone call came. It changed my day. I just got on a different plane at the airport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:  Full well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:  Full well the busy whisper, circling round,   Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, therefore I'm single. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, therefore I'm single.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but I'm not holding my breath for that. It's drawing attention away from third-quarter numbers that, despite GM, are really pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12419]]></link><description><![CDATA[If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There but for the grace of God go I ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18077]]></link><description><![CDATA[There but for the grace of God go I]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Impossible' is not a scientific term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20655]]></link><description><![CDATA['Impossible' is not a scientific term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those  Who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those  Who do us none at all.   [Lat., Non rete accipitri tenditur, neque miluo,    Qui male faciunt nobis: illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kissed thee, ere I killed thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kissed thee, ere I killed thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7347]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. Deem not I shall awake Him! On these deeps   Peace reigns, like that the Blessed know on high. To Hope, the vovage seems one little day;   Faith's hand shall soon the veil between remove; 'Tis Charity that swells my sail alway.     I live of love!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55446]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is achieved without toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is achieved without toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Contempt of material things as such is, in fact, no more orthodox than pantheism -- it is the great dualist heresy which always lies in wait for an over-spiritualized Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like we have to go out and earn respect, and the only way to do that is go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like we have to go out and earn respect, and the only way to do that is go out and play hard for four quarters and win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20624]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17844]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye must see   A purpose in Liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Jesus... did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Jesus... did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, but He did finish the work which God gave Him to do. The only alternative to frustration is to be sure that we are doing what God wants. Nothing substitutes for knowing that this day, this hour, in this place, we are doing the will of the Father. Then and only then can we think of all the other unfinished tasks with equanimity, and leave them with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies are such a nice way to start people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies are such a nice way to start people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune befriends the bold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56675]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wer't not madness then To make the fox surveyor of the fold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51312]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wer't not madness then To make the fox surveyor of the fold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All profoundly original work looks ugly at first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45304]]></link><description><![CDATA[All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24427]]></link><description><![CDATA[A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius multos modios salis absumpseris.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says "Amen" and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guest and a fish after three days are poison ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guest and a fish after three days are poison]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have to buy machines for 335 precincts. But before we do, our goal was to get as many people (with disabilities) here as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a very special young lady who had the courage to step up and testify, ... She's the hero in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37369]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a very special young lady who had the courage to step up and testify, ... She's the hero in this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the denial of reality. - Dragons of Winter Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17071]]></link><description><![CDATA[May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33063]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hostess, clap to the doors. Watch to-night, pray to-morrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry? Shall we have a play extempore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doe what thou oughtest, and come what come can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35436]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows whether they felt bad or they just wanted to get rid of it, because somebody, somewhere would have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows whether they felt bad or they just wanted to get rid of it, because somebody, somewhere would have information as to who took it and where it's been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33253</guid></item></channel></rss>