<?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[Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross    Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross    Teach me. O God, to use all the circumstances of my life to-day that they may bring forth in me the fruits of holiness rather than the fruits of sin.   Let me use disappointment as material for patience:   Let me use success as material for thankfulness:   Let me use suspence as material for perseverance:   Let me use danger as material for courage:   Let me use reproach as material for longsuffering:   Let me use praise as material for humility:   Let me use pleasures as material for temperance:   Let me use pains as material for endurance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   Having tried, we must hold fast [to the truth] (I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   Having tried, we must hold fast [to the truth] (I Thes. 5:21), upon [the penalty of] the loss of a crown (Rev. 3:11); we must not let go for all the fleabitings of the present afflictions, etc. Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world; no, not for the saving of souls, though our own most precious; least of all for the bitter sweetening of a little vanishing pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a right anybody can use, so please, if there is any problem with a press publication, there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29418]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a right anybody can use, so please, if there is any problem with a press publication, there are also laws to solve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  He that is alive may know that he was born, though he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326  He that is alive may know that he was born, though he know neither the place where nor the time when he was so; and so may he that is spiritually alive, and hath ground of evidence that he is so, that he was born again, though he know neither when, nor where, nor how. And this case is usual in persons of quiet natural tempers, who have had the advantage of education under means of light and grace. God ofttimes, in such persons, begins and carries on the work of his grace insensibly, so that they come to good growth and maturity before they know that they are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60311]]></link><description><![CDATA[With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is a master and servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is a master and servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4702]]></link><description><![CDATA[A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1238]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Present-moment living, getting in touch with your "now," is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are not all quite definite yet because the Kangaroos play on Sunday and they just had their last training ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42092]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are not all quite definite yet because the Kangaroos play on Sunday and they just had their last training session, so we'll wait until we see how our blokes pull up tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great put the little on the hooke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great put the little on the hooke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20014]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fine line between participation and mockery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45551]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fine line between participation and mockery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13395]]></link><description><![CDATA["Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda...serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62770]]></link><description><![CDATA[A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.   He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,    Dominion absolute; that right we hold     By his donation; but man over men      He made not lord; such title to himself       Reserving, human left from human free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let never day nor night unhallowed pass But still remember what the Lord hath done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let never day nor night unhallowed pass But still remember what the Lord hath done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. -Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50598]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile don't frown Look up don't look downBelieve in yourself Don't let yourself goJust be who you areAnd let your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile don't frown Look up don't look downBelieve in yourself Don't let yourself goJust be who you areAnd let your live flow..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to this folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48667]]></link><description><![CDATA[As dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to this folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57691]]></link><description><![CDATA[My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools;  Yet now and then your men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16177]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools;  Yet now and then your men of wit   Will condescend to take a bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privilege is the greatest enemy of right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privilege is the greatest enemy of right]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10146]]></link><description><![CDATA[She would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elk existed at one time in 48 of the 50 states. A lot of the recovery is due to good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elk existed at one time in 48 of the 50 states. A lot of the recovery is due to good wildlife management practices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killing no murder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Killing no murder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22877]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so  Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56671]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so  Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,   And smile, smile, smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.  [Fr., Patience et longueur de temps.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45722]]></link><description><![CDATA[By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.  [Fr., Patience et longueur de temps.   Font plus que force ni que rage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45722</guid></item></channel></rss>