<?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[Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I won't even begin to discuss it as a football match because it wasn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38428]]></link><description><![CDATA[I won't even begin to discuss it as a football match because it wasn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. [Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. [Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae arte perfecta sunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45378]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2503]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On hob, reclines the corner's guest,    Reading the news to mark again     The bankrupt lists or price of grain.      Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe       He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe,        Yet, winter's leisure to regale,         Hopes better times, and sips his ale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for evolution, I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoan bumped into each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43858]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for evolution, I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoan bumped into each other under a volcanic cesspool and evolved into Cindy Crawford.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59606]]></link><description><![CDATA[The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got blamed for penalty after penalty after penalty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36133]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got blamed for penalty after penalty after penalty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death, the last sleep? No the final awakening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death, the last sleep? No the final awakening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also to seek from Him the very power. This happy necessity of having recourse to Him in all our wants, instead of being grievous to us, should be our greatest consolation. What a happiness is it that we are allowed to speak to Him with confidence; to open our hearts and hold familiar conversation with him, by prayer! He Himself invites us to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51162]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much more disgraceful to write one thing and think another!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy and persistence alter all things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy and persistence alter all things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26168]]></link><description><![CDATA[On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray, and let God worry ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray, and let God worry]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Across the wires the electric message came: / `He is no better, he is much the same.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Across the wires the electric message came: / `He is no better, he is much the same.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22994]]></link><description><![CDATA[God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58050]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59895]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15793]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of "compassion".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If only the net was just a little wider. We should have won that game. Our kids fought hard, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36098]]></link><description><![CDATA[If only the net was just a little wider. We should have won that game. Our kids fought hard, and we overcame a short bench to put a scare into them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19416]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower,  From my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to me now! O, come! benignest sleep! And fold me up, as evening doth a flower,  From my vain self, and vain things which have power   Upon my soul to make me smile or weep.    And when thou comest, oh, like Death be deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The atmosphere Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers  Seem full of welcomes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20994]]></link><description><![CDATA[The atmosphere Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers  Seem full of welcomes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The story of the human race is the story of men and womenselling themselves short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The story of the human race is the story of men and womenselling themselves short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything was as normal as could be for something like this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything was as normal as could be for something like this,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35783]]></link><description><![CDATA[People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8973]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that was our best game of the year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36150]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that was our best game of the year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an incredible serve. It's not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issue. You're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29180]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an incredible serve. It's not a function of how fast it is. The trajectory is the main issue. You're lunging, but then it's up. You're sort of diving, but then you can't reach it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for anything is saltwater--sweat, tears, or the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for anything is saltwater--sweat, tears, or the sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll probably trend a little bit lower [in the next couple of weeks]. A lot of the gains have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28345]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll probably trend a little bit lower [in the next couple of weeks]. A lot of the gains have been on positive comments made by companies like Dell and IBM, but I think a lot of this reflects market-share shifts rather than a recovery in the overall market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28345</guid></item></channel></rss>