<?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[Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46312]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking about an economy averaging about 30 miles per hour in a 60-mph speed zone. That keeps pressure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38034]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about an economy averaging about 30 miles per hour in a 60-mph speed zone. That keeps pressure on the unemployment rate, forcing it to continue to rise. By summer, we could have 6.4 percent unemployment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13534]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela Schwindt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3235]]></link><description><![CDATA[To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,  Drink the clear stream, and nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58875]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,  Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,   Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58240]]></link><description><![CDATA[If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60081]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love;  The ivy climbs the laurel   To clasp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23107]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love;  The ivy climbs the laurel   To clasp the boughs above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The generous heart Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The generous heart Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   [John] Wycliffe's doctrine of "dominion founded in grace" was a peculiar feature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   [John] Wycliffe's doctrine of "dominion founded in grace" was a peculiar feature of his system. He taught that God, as the great feudal superior of the universe, allotted to all earthly authorities their rule in fief as subject to Himself. The priesthood was not an office of dominion, but of service, and its prerogatives ceased when service was not rendered. Dominion was not granted to one person as God's Vicar on earth, but the King was as much God's Vicar as the Pope; nay, every Christian held his rights immediately of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty, all-powerful money gives them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50222]]></link><description><![CDATA[For well-dowered wife, credit, friends, birth and beauty, all-powerful money gives them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor With a hairy old crown on 'er 'ead?  She 'as ships ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54479]]></link><description><![CDATA['Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor With a hairy old crown on 'er 'ead?  She 'as ships on the foam--she 'as millions at 'ome,   An' she pays us poor beggars in red.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oil is good in some ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oil is good in some ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't get a lot of pub. We're not in the media, we're not in the papers, so people figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28590]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't get a lot of pub. We're not in the media, we're not in the papers, so people figure we're just sneaking by, getting lucky and winning games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The keener the want the lustier the growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The keener the want the lustier the growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60552]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664 Sunshine let it be, or frost,  Storm or calm, as Thou shalt choose; Though Thine every gift were lost,  Thee Thyself we cannot lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For death begins with life's first breathAnd life begins at touch of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11315]]></link><description><![CDATA[For death begins with life's first breathAnd life begins at touch of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65012]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Greece we give our shining blades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18285]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Greece we give our shining blades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11452]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,  And let's be red with mirth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18435]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,  And let's be red with mirth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's coming off the ball well, and he's always got that quick first step on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30637]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's coming off the ball well, and he's always got that quick first step on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The female of the species is more deadly than the male. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The female of the species is more deadly than the male.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55187]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With five minutes to go at a timeout, I looked down and everybody was gasping for air. But our goal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42160]]></link><description><![CDATA[With five minutes to go at a timeout, I looked down and everybody was gasping for air. But our goal ever since we got here was to go to Salem. We were five minutes away. We can be tired all next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity deprives us of our judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity deprives us of our judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14220]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963   God's omnipotence means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963   God's omnipotence means [His] power to do all that is not intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense. This is no limit to His power. If you choose to say, "God can give a creature free will and at the same time withhold free will from it", you have not succeeded in saying anything about God: meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words "God can." It remains true that all things are possible with God: the intrinsic impossibilities are not things but nonentities. It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives -- not because His power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.  Or like the snow falls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46691]]></link><description><![CDATA[But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.  Or like the snow falls in the river,   A moment white--then melts forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath lands hath quarrells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49349]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath lands hath quarrells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26478]]></link><description><![CDATA['Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to be a man of prayer, and be governed by its spirit, is not to get a book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to be a man of prayer, and be governed by its spirit, is not to get a book full of prayers; but the best help you can have from a book, is to read one full of such truths, instructions, and awakening informations, as force you to see and know who, and what, and where, you are; that God is your all; and that all is misery, but a heart and life devoted to him. This is the best outward prayer book you can have, as it will turn you to an inward book, and spirit of prayer in your heart, which is a continual longing desire of the heart after God, his divine life, and Holy Spirit. When, for the sake of this inward prayer, you retire at any time of the day, never begin till you know and feel, why and wherefore you are going to pray; and let this why and wherefore, form and direct everything that comes from you, whether it be in thought or in word. [Continued tomorrow].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42277]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691   I apprehended it a Matter of great Necessity to imprint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691   I apprehended it a Matter of great Necessity to imprint true catholicism on the Minds of Christians, it being a most lamentable thing to observe how few Christians in the World there be, that fall not into one Sect or another .... And if they can but get to be of a Sect which they think the holiest (as the Anabaptists and the Separatists), or which is the largest (as the Greeks and the Romans), they think then that they are sufficiently warranted to deny others to be God's Church, or at least to deny them Christian love and communion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy! eldest-born of hell! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy! eldest-born of hell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14016</guid></item></channel></rss>