<?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[Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance dreams are cruses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And still it half calls up the realms of fairy,   Where I beheld what never was to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each week you have to wrestle at a higher level. We all have to step it up this week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each week you have to wrestle at a higher level. We all have to step it up this week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies Charles Cuevas. He once said "Gimme hockey, or gimme death." He didn't quite get hockey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies Charles Cuevas. He once said "Gimme hockey, or gimme death." He didn't quite get hockey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34744]]></link><description><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57380]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen became a clarion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen became a clarion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2546</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 love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5121]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8948]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46750]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do not love that do not show their love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25716]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do not love that do not show their love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61132]]></link><description><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,   By a rifleman hid in the thicket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55497]]></link><description><![CDATA[From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Peace comes when there is no cloud between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him. The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace -- the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our concern is that that black-box warning might discourage parents from getting treatment for their children. We don't believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our concern is that that black-box warning might discourage parents from getting treatment for their children. We don't believe that antidepressants cause suicides; all the evidence points to the fact that antidepressants do just the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39012]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to drag foreign ministers to Brussels, but if we he have to, we will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is how she came into contact with the organization which allowed her to become a fighter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35847]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is how she came into contact with the organization which allowed her to become a fighter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention,sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; itrepresents ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention,sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; itrepresents the wise choice of many alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19197]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to find a language to communicate with the folks who sign our checks to help them understand that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39847]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to find a language to communicate with the folks who sign our checks to help them understand that they will not be able to build a valuable journalistic brand without good journalism, which is expensive. This creates a chasm between us that admittedly will be very hard to bridge ... Our job is not to give the public what they think they want because what they want changes or is wrong. Look at how it changed after 9/11. Before 9/11 the public was less interested, according to every survey, in Islam or international news. After 9/11, they asked, 'How come you didn't tell us more about Islam and what was going on?' What the public wants is more about Brad and Angelina.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This report confirms everything we've ever said about why the Byrd Amendment should be overturned, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34656]]></link><description><![CDATA[This report confirms everything we've ever said about why the Byrd Amendment should be overturned,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep the officers out on the things that really need to be taken care of right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep the officers out on the things that really need to be taken care of right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take it and return it: the kiss of love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take it and return it: the kiss of love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never hit a ball that far that didn't go over a fence. I think it really got us going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never hit a ball that far that didn't go over a fence. I think it really got us going and helped carry us a little bit. It was a great day today to be in this atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49314]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are one people and will act as one. [Ger., Wir sind ein Volk, und einig wollen wir handeln.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60144]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are one people and will act as one. [Ger., Wir sind ein Volk, und einig wollen wir handeln.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't place too much confidence in the man who boasts of being as honest as the day is long. Wait until you meet him at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have some size as always and a great point guard in Philip Garnett. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39893]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have some size as always and a great point guard in Philip Garnett.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51685]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one with an intense social consciousness, if it does not fill one with a sense of overwhelming responsibility for the world. It has been said... truly that the Church exists for those outside of itself. The Church must never be in any sense a little huddle of pious people, shutting their doors against the world, lost in prayer and praise, connoisseurs of preaching and liturgy, busy mutually congratulating themselves on the excellence of their Christian experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5838</guid></item></channel></rss>