<?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[There were miracles long before Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27572]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were miracles long before Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,  As, darkly painted on the crimson ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong,  As, darkly painted on the crimson sky,   Thy figure floats along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no one subsists by himself alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11922]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no one subsists by himself alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cuts like a knife but it feels so right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30821]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cuts like a knife but it feels so right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh goodie, goth mimes. The best of both worlds. They pretend they're trapped in a box and then whine about how cruel and unfair it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50920]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try out the animal before he bought him. He took theAss home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, uponwhich the new animal left all the others and at once joined theone that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all. Seeing this, the man put a halter on him and led him back to hisowner. On being asked how, in so short a time, he could havemade a trial of him, he answered, I do not need a trial; I knowthat he will be just the same as the one he chose for hiscompanion. A man is known by the company he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59594]]></link><description><![CDATA[I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think I could have called my career complete without racing in IROC. You always compete against the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41654]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think I could have called my career complete without racing in IROC. You always compete against the best of the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation ofsuccess, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21561]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation ofsuccess, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, andthat people can only experience true success and enduring happiness asthey learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish they would only take me as I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/288]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish they would only take me as I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his paternal acres, freed from all thought of usury.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply enough to prayer that I always want to do something myself in it, wherein I do very wrong and wish most definitely to cut off and separate my mind from all that, and to hold it with all my strength, as much as I can, to the sole regard and simple unity. By allowing the fear of being ineffectual to enter into the state of prayer, and by wishing to accomplish something myself, I spoilt it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13611]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a man's world, and you men can have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27033]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a man's world, and you men can have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scientist studies what is, an engineer studies what never was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13895]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scientist studies what is, an engineer studies what never was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Kerke the narre, from God more farre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8687]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If ballet were easy, they'd call it football ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3705]]></link><description><![CDATA[If ballet were easy, they'd call it football]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would the cook were o' my mind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would the cook were o' my mind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64828]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? Three angels gave me at once a kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? Three angels gave me at once a kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people use their youth to make their old age miserable ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people use their youth to make their old age miserable]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public hospitals may become an endangered species. Not only are public hospitals disappearing from inner cities across the country, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public hospitals may become an endangered species. Not only are public hospitals disappearing from inner cities across the country, they are disappearing from the suburbs as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The itch of scribbling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The itch of scribbling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said, 'You're from Chicago, home of the blues. Here's a nice blues record from a local band,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said, 'You're from Chicago, home of the blues. Here's a nice blues record from a local band,']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm blown away by the talent of this organization. This agency is peppered with unique and talented individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm blown away by the talent of this organization. This agency is peppered with unique and talented individuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who forsees calamities, suffers them twice over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5179]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who forsees calamities, suffers them twice over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write everything on a xylophone! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write everything on a xylophone!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is awesome.ÃƒÂƒÃ¢Â€Âš Everybody gets excited about this.ÃƒÂƒÃ¢Â€Âš It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37011]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is awesome.ÃƒÂƒÃ¢Â€Âš Everybody gets excited about this.ÃƒÂƒÃ¢Â€Âš It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61198]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and Her Little MaidensA widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles, for their mistress, no longer hearing the hour from the cock, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh as much as you breathe, Love as much as you live ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh as much as you breathe, Love as much as you live]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8967]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hyt is not al golde that glareth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hyt is not al golde that glareth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53778]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that has done the most not only for his team, but has done most to help his team win baseball games. Not only for home runs, runs batted in and batting average, but also in the clubhouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36247</guid></item></channel></rss>