<?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 secret of being a bore... is to tell everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay away from the coronation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19095]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay away from the coronation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8949]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15088]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This movie is about forgiveness, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29222]]></link><description><![CDATA[This movie is about forgiveness,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to laugh and jeer and wiggle my ears at your death throes... You can OD on religion or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to laugh and jeer and wiggle my ears at your death throes... You can OD on religion or dope or war or toadburgers, for all I care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all nations of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all nations of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You made this mess yourself, and now you must eat it all up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51761]]></link><description><![CDATA[You made this mess yourself, and now you must eat it all up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox,  Who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox,  Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up,   Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good horse should be seldom spurred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good horse should be seldom spurred]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider well what your shoulders are able to bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Craft against craft makes no living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Craft against craft makes no living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now we’re apart and you’re just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65764]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now we’re apart and you’re just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn’t make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning,--an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The various moral and theological and sociological disputes of the day, however progressively resolved with ecclesiastical connivance, have nothing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The various moral and theological and sociological disputes of the day, however progressively resolved with ecclesiastical connivance, have nothing to say to this spiritual hunger, which is not assuaged by legalized abortion and homosexuality, solaced by contraception, or relieved by majority rule. Nor will it take comfort in the thought that God is dead, or that mankind has come of age, or even in ecumenical negotiations for writing off Papal Infallibility against the validity of Anglican Orders. The only means of satisfying it remains that bread of life which Jesus offered, with the promise that those who are of it should never hunger again. The promise stands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is the parent of all psychology ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is the parent of all psychology]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9292]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been talks for 12 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been talks for 12 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15722]]></link><description><![CDATA[What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone's still a bit tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone's still a bit tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63760]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown;  I think very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown;  I think very different from thousands; indeed   'Twas a lucky escape for the stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lauk! what a monstrous tail our cat has got!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The following year will certainly be looked at as a transition period. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The following year will certainly be looked at as a transition period.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you candream it, you can become it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22692]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you candream it, you can become it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He runs a 4.9 in the 40, bench-presses 450 pounds and squats and dead-lifts over 600, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30641]]></link><description><![CDATA[He runs a 4.9 in the 40, bench-presses 450 pounds and squats and dead-lifts over 600,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem, potionis sitim.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big institutions are holding back their own capital. They're looking for an upside catalyst for stock prices. Any activity on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big institutions are holding back their own capital. They're looking for an upside catalyst for stock prices. Any activity on the mergers and acquisition, buy-back or dividend fronts, mixed with good news out of energy or the Fed, would be a catalyst to bring the big institutions back into stock market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  As long as I live, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379  As long as I live, I will never appeal for money for the mission of God in this world. This is a degradation of God and of ourselves, which has pauperized us in every way over the centuries. God has no need, and if the mission is God's, then we do not ask for help to give God a boost; therefore we do not appeal for funds. We allow people to take a share in God's work, and this is a very different thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40295]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' boo me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54998]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're that young, you can't come to grips emotionally so you isolate yourself from your teammates. So my junior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41332]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're that young, you can't come to grips emotionally so you isolate yourself from your teammates. So my junior and senior years, I felt it was no longer my team. I lost a lot of good relationships and friendships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44389</guid></item></channel></rss>