<?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[A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48824]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes. [It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes. [It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm getting jobs because people like me on a show. I'll take it. It's nice to hear that someone like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm getting jobs because people like me on a show. I'll take it. It's nice to hear that someone like a Matt Groening is a fan of the show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door;  And wit to seize the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26007]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door;  And wit to seize the flitting guest   Need never hunger more.    But while the loitering idler waits     Good luck beside his fire,      The bold heart storms at fortune's gates,       And conquers its desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566   Christianity is a battle, not a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566   Christianity is a battle, not a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66467]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers. Some of it might not be true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1648]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we cannot reach an agreement, God forbid, the constitution will be put to the Iraqi people on October 15. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we cannot reach an agreement, God forbid, the constitution will be put to the Iraqi people on October 15.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55121]]></link><description><![CDATA[A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45713]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kid can do both well. We really saved us a pick by taking him because he can do both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38346]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kid can do both well. We really saved us a pick by taking him because he can do both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9886]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26939]]></link><description><![CDATA[By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will is character in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will is character in action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember, pain makes people change. So dont hurt them when you do not want them to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember, pain makes people change. So dont hurt them when you do not want them to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52105]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the conviction persists - though history has shown it to be a hallucination - that all the questions that the human mind has asked are questions that can be answered in terms of the alternatives that the questions themselves present. But in fact intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume - an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them. Old questions are solved by disappearing, evaporating, while new questions corresponding to the changed attitude of endeavor and preference take their place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50713]]></link><description><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51470]]></link><description><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd say probably 50 percent of our customers coming in are looking for a TV for the Super Bowl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28805]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd say probably 50 percent of our customers coming in are looking for a TV for the Super Bowl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:  A sadder and a wiser man, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:  A sadder and a wiser man,   He rose the morrow morn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3591]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A guilty conscience never feels secure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18480]]></link><description><![CDATA[A guilty conscience never feels secure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the big bombsYou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the big bombsYou that hide behind wallsYou that hide behind desksI just want you to knowI can see through your masks]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're devoted to giving children a chance to have a full camp experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31130]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're devoted to giving children a chance to have a full camp experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23077]]></link><description><![CDATA[True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart,  And press a suit with passion,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart,  And press a suit with passion,   Is not a woman's part.    If man come not to gather     The roses where they stand,      They fade among their foliage,       They cannot seek his hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got in late this morning. That wasn't a factor. We just got out here and took things as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got in late this morning. That wasn't a factor. We just got out here and took things as they came.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62869]]></link><description><![CDATA[If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15246]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29564]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,  Howe'er his own commence, can never be   But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,  Howe'er his own commence, can never be   But an usurper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20598]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to be A saint by doing lovely things, or watching late with Thee, Or dreaming in the dawn-light, or storming Heaven's gates, Make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates. Although I must have Martha's hands, I have a Mary mind, And when I black the boots and shoes, Thy sandals, Lord, I find. I think of how they trod the earth, what time I scrub the floor: Accept this meditation, Lord, I haven't time for more. Warm all the kitchen with Thy love, and light it with Thy peace; Forgive me all my worrying, and make my grumbling cease. Thou who didst love to give men food, in room or by the sea, Accept this service that I do -- I do it unto Thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23579]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61856]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -Leo Tolstoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55245]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -Leo Tolstoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really, they should go back to school and learn something new and use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really, they should go back to school and learn something new and use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impact will be very minimal. I doubt there's that many (Delaware County residents) working for Delphi in Anderson now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32418]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impact will be very minimal. I doubt there's that many (Delaware County residents) working for Delphi in Anderson now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43247]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher our position the more modestly should we behave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher our position the more modestly should we behave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit;  'Twas Presbyterian true blue;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12627]]></link><description><![CDATA[For his religion, it was fit To match his learning and his wit;  'Twas Presbyterian true blue;   For he was of that stubborn crew    Of errant saints, whom all men grant     To be the true Church Militant;      Such as do build their faith upon       The holy text of pike and gun;        Decide all controversies by         Infallible artillery;          And prove their doctrine orthodox,           By Apostolic blows and knocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the best sorrow in a Christian soul when his sins are loathsome and offensive unto him--a happy token ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the best sorrow in a Christian soul when his sins are loathsome and offensive unto him--a happy token that there hath not been of late in him any insensible supply of heinous offenses, because his stale sins are still his new and daily sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reality is that most of us sit at home and read about the Super Bowl and the $1,000 parties, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reality is that most of us sit at home and read about the Super Bowl and the $1,000 parties, and we won't have an opportunity to participate. When I look at a $400 ticket, I blanch. This allows everyday people to get involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31433</guid></item></channel></rss>