<?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[Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Philippians 4:2]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23707]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps;  The robes ye weave, another wears;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps;  The robes ye weave, another wears;   The arms ye forge, another bears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18397]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43612]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66642]]></link><description><![CDATA[As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Private patients, if they do not like me, can go elsewhere; but the poor devils in the hospital I am bound to take care of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire is what closes Saturday night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire is what closes Saturday night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52850]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Officially there are 166 dead, and another 125 missing and presumed dead, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Officially there are 166 dead, and another 125 missing and presumed dead,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The O2 shareholders currently have a clean, simple cash deal on the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The O2 shareholders currently have a clean, simple cash deal on the table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood wants press, any kind of press. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First of all, I could not believe it, ... Nobody in their right mind would have expected this drop in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40858]]></link><description><![CDATA[First of all, I could not believe it, ... Nobody in their right mind would have expected this drop in pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51645]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is to be once resolved on should be first often well considered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feare nothing but sinne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feare nothing but sinne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155   Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155   Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace, it is glory in its infancy. I now see godliness is more than the outside and this world's passments and their buskings [i.e., ornaments and fine dress]. Who knoweth the truth of grace without a trial? O how little getteth Christ of us, but that which he winneth (to speak so) with much toil and pains! And how soon would faith freeze without a cross?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54034]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey,  Away from the world that slaves for money--   Come, journey the way with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe you can and you're halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe you can and you're halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42326]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the perfect opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38702]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the perfect opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65679]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can believe anything provided it is incredible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can believe anything provided it is incredible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. [Fr., Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siecles vous contemplent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is action in rehearsal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is action in rehearsal]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It changed the momentum. But I don't know that it would have changed the outcome of the game. Last week ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33250]]></link><description><![CDATA[It changed the momentum. But I don't know that it would have changed the outcome of the game. Last week in our section final (against Wayzata) we had two goals that they called off on us, and it didn't change the outcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is over comming death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is over comming death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can play about anything, but I gotta get it all rigged where I could get to it, you know, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can play about anything, but I gotta get it all rigged where I could get to it, you know, so I can play it all at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10728]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure--critics all are ready made.  Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,   With just enough of learning to misquote;    A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault;     A turn for punning, call it Attic salt;      To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet,       His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet;        Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit;         Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit;          Care not for feeling--pass your proper jest,           And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought my talent would transcend my outspokenness. I was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2043]]></link><description><![CDATA[What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50073]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision isdrudgery. A vision with a task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22660]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision isdrudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22660</guid></item></channel></rss>