<?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[Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I definitely think fly tying is addicting, but you can start out cheaply. You can get the needed equipment for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I definitely think fly tying is addicting, but you can start out cheaply. You can get the needed equipment for less than $100.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can't get diseasesof Mad Chicken or Mad Pigby eating tomatoes oralmonds or figs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51979]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can't get diseasesof Mad Chicken or Mad Pigby eating tomatoes oralmonds or figs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thursday Jennifer Whitaker will take 80 student nurses to the convention center to do family assessments, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thursday Jennifer Whitaker will take 80 student nurses to the convention center to do family assessments,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is fear in the market. People are scared to see the market going down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28242]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is fear in the market. People are scared to see the market going down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58498]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises,  . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel and know that we are eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20625]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel and know that we are eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things always happen in series. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things always happen in series.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19512]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45929]]></link><description><![CDATA[One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time,  Will one day end it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time,  Will one day end it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24151]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves on to a next sentence until he's perfectly happy with one he's written before. So he'll struggle with the opening paragraph of a chapter for weeks. This is laborious, not to mention painful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and the little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in the Panhandle don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28360]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's probably the most disciplined team I've ever seen in high school basketball. All the teams in the Panhandle don't play like that. But we just adapted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10415]]></link><description><![CDATA[All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large proportion of Americans smoke, are overweight, and drink alcohol to excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it willbut grow and gather to itself such explosive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21570]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it willbut grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it burststhrough it will blow up everything in its way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure  Short of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure  Short of His can and body; must I find   A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one soon or late comes round by Rome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably will see fewer people travel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40909]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably will see fewer people travel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When conditions are dry like this, we are urging people to use extreme caution. Cigarettes are the prime culprits, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34396]]></link><description><![CDATA[When conditions are dry like this, we are urging people to use extreme caution. Cigarettes are the prime culprits, but any spark can ignite a fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5364]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17566]]></link><description><![CDATA[True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36028]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the first attempt to get some numbers out there to get a feel for how big this thing is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36028</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[Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[no doubt the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41319]]></link><description><![CDATA[no doubt the new wave [of attacks] in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot from the face of the Islamic world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28576]]></link><description><![CDATA[When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62755]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62755</guid></item></channel></rss>