<?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[The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49956]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The carrot being held out is, 'If you really help us.' It all depends on his level of cooperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The carrot being held out is, 'If you really help us.' It all depends on his level of cooperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is meat and drink to me. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is meat and drink to me. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wanted to hear from everyone, no matter what they have to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33290]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wanted to hear from everyone, no matter what they have to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta. [Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna charta.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta. [Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna charta.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force shites upon Reason's Back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force shites upon Reason's Back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19929]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension so we must do what we can with the third.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.  There is a crack in everything.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.  There is a crack in everything.   That's how the light gets in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27270]]></link><description><![CDATA[She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2071]]></link><description><![CDATA[She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19900]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it;  And what that word did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12631]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it;  And what that word did make it,   I do believe and take it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No marvel, an it like your majesty, My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;  They know their master ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18894]]></link><description><![CDATA[No marvel, an it like your majesty, My Lord Protector's hawks do tower so well;  They know their master loves to be aloft   And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had some recovery but nothing to breathe a sigh of relief over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37829]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had some recovery but nothing to breathe a sigh of relief over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossiping doesn't belong in the office. Most of us don't want to hear somebody else's personal drama. If there's good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossiping doesn't belong in the office. Most of us don't want to hear somebody else's personal drama. If there's good news ... graduation, a new house ... but the negative stuff doesn't have a place in the office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16675]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have any expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29591]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have any expectations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709   When we inculcate that faith ought to be certain and secure, we conceive not of a certainty attended with no doubt, or of a security interrupted by no anxiety; but we rather affirm, that believers have a perpetual conflict with their own diffidence, and are far from placing their consciences in a placid calm never disturbed by any storms. Yet, on the other hand, we deny, however they may be afflicted, that they ever fall and depart from that certain confidence which they have conceived in the divine mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)  Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9924]]></link><description><![CDATA[In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)  Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,   In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high    Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate,     Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute;      And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich wife ... he has a magnificent house. He has the method, the means and the money to make his escape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got a lot of loose balls and tipped rebounds. Our big guys did a good job down low. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29737]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got a lot of loose balls and tipped rebounds. Our big guys did a good job down low. That ... proved to be the difference in the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you,  Without a thought disloyal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you,  Without a thought disloyal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose this game, there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse because this is the game that gets you to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35494]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose this game, there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse because this is the game that gets you to the place where all good things can happen. This is the hardest hurdle to get over, because you need 12 more months then to get back here and you didn't put yourself in a position to win the national championship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing politer than this. It's literally a camera looking at people -- a radio that sees things -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing politer than this. It's literally a camera looking at people -- a radio that sees things -- but it's completely private. You see a white ghost. There is nothing that gives any indication of race or sex, so there is no racial profiling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition to the physical contact, it surprised us to find that these immune cells also have machinery to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35673]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition to the physical contact, it surprised us to find that these immune cells also have machinery to take up serotonin and to secrete it in an excitatory manner. The point behind this transmission is not entirely clear, but it appears to be an additional way of stimulating a T cell response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55965]]></link><description><![CDATA[This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an ideaproblem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21350]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an ideaproblem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr Watson lurched forward towards the knife. He walked into it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mr Watson lurched forward towards the knife. He walked into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All comes out even at the end of the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11134]]></link><description><![CDATA[All comes out even at the end of the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33498]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad's house got washed away in the flood. He has nothing to go back to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forethought is easy, repentance hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forethought is easy, repentance hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11171]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25312]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18890]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is short, time is fast, no replay, no rewind so enjoy every single moment... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is short, time is fast, no replay, no rewind so enjoy every single moment...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63148</guid></item></channel></rss>