<?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[When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20103]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15360]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as I love beauty I am young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65116]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as I love beauty I am young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very obviously, they've pitched well - not making mistakes, living on the corners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very obviously, they've pitched well - not making mistakes, living on the corners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We expect increased demand in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region for our products and services in the near future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35748]]></link><description><![CDATA[We expect increased demand in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region for our products and services in the near future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19898]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is a cruelty To load a falling man. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56059]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is a cruelty To load a falling man. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money doesn't sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money doesn't sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed   The lofty vault, to gather and roll back    The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood,     Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down      And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks       And supplication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boiling oil or melted lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56762]]></link><description><![CDATA[The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fish adores the bait. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fish adores the bait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54075]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While most of us are breathing a sigh of relief I want to remind residents that hurricane season does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31036]]></link><description><![CDATA[While most of us are breathing a sigh of relief I want to remind residents that hurricane season does not end until Nov. 30, ... We have been extremely fortunate this time around, but this is an active hurricane season and more named storms are likely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River;  We listened to the landler-tune,   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River;  We listened to the landler-tune,   We watched the moonbeams quiver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who paies the Physitian, does the cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who paies the Physitian, does the cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57169]]></link><description><![CDATA[That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when alone. [Lat., Nunquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus; nec minus solum quam cum solus esset.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be a will to all goodness; and you have not the Spirit of Love in you till you have this will to all goodness at all times and on all occasions. You may indeed do many works of love and delight in them -- especially at such times as they are not inconvenient to your state or temper or occurrences in life. But the Spirit of Love is not in you till it is the spirit of your life, till you live freely, willingly, and universally according to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is your life, you married her couse your white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61572]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is your life, you married her couse your white.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the real secret of all that indignation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50369]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the real secret of all that indignation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Following his brief inaugural address to the Congress, President George Washington and his party walked over to St. Paul's Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Following his brief inaugural address to the Congress, President George Washington and his party walked over to St. Paul's Church for divine services. His prayer that afternoon was: 'Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45585]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can afford to live anywhere else and I choose to stay here, and I am now raising my newborn child here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robert K. Greenleaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54805]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called; Which some professing have erred concerning faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This team knows that they are part of history but it also knows that they have done nothing yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37406]]></link><description><![CDATA[This team knows that they are part of history but it also knows that they have done nothing yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. [Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmerz.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. [Ger., Ach! aus dem Gluck entwickelt oft sich Schmerz.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in,  I think of those companions true  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in,  I think of those companions true   Who studied with me at the U-    Niversity of Gottingen.   - George Canning, Song--Of One Eleven Years in Prison,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're very athletic, and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34523]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're very athletic, and they run the floor. They have tough-minded guys and they never give up. Even when you have a lead, they always find a way to come back. It's an ACC game and it's going to be a close game I'm sure. We're just going to have to be consistent throughout the game; we can't have long periods where we don't score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I choke while reading this, it's only from my love for Bill, ... What a price this family has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33030]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I choke while reading this, it's only from my love for Bill, ... What a price this family has paid for Miss Allard's conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50228</guid></item></channel></rss>