<?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[Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58204]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est,  Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes a great difference in our feelings towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6241]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes a great difference in our feelings towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it makes a vast difference in their feelings towards us if they know that we are in the habit of praying for them. There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nitrate doesn't appear to be present at levels of concern in groundwater deeper than about 150 feet. In general, elevated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nitrate doesn't appear to be present at levels of concern in groundwater deeper than about 150 feet. In general, elevated nitrate levels were found in shallow wells and not in deep wells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  Life is not long enough for a religion of inferences; we shall never have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  Life is not long enough for a religion of inferences; we shall never have done beginning, if we determine to begin with proof. We shall ever be laying our foundations; we shall turn theology into evidences, and divines into textuaries... Life is for action. If we insist on proofs for everything, we shall never come to action: to act you must assume, and that assumption is faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31986]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had that same fire and desire that we had at the beginning of the season. Everyone worked hard. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39441]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had that same fire and desire that we had at the beginning of the season. Everyone worked hard. It's like we entered the next part of our season. It's exciting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    In questions of this sort there are two things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century    In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26776]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer,  And, singing gently ever,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58450]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer,  And, singing gently ever,   Dips under the water clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the way I play. I played that way in college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29241]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the way I play. I played that way in college.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With vollies of eternal babble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58605]]></link><description><![CDATA[With vollies of eternal babble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27550]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1637]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60976]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "How will I get off?". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, "How will I get off?".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47098]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed. [Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabantur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60143]]></link><description><![CDATA[By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed. [Lat., Concordia res parvae crescunt, discordia maximae dilabantur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14537]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration ofvictory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration ofvictory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with its own heart and mind,   Each of its own distinctive kind,    Yet each a part and none the whole,     But all together form one soul;      That soul Our Country at its best,       No North, no South, no East, no West,        No yours, no mine, but always Ours,         Merged in one Power our lesser powers,          For no one's favor, great or small,           But all for Each and each for All.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although many machines have been disinfected, we're certainly not out of the woods yet. Many machines may still be infected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although many machines have been disinfected, we're certainly not out of the woods yet. Many machines may still be infected without their owner's knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dress up in my costume, and I do the laundry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dress up in my costume, and I do the laundry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55048]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The players and parents really rallied around him this season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The players and parents really rallied around him this season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18111]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope your dreams take you... to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fed's painfully aware of this, and that's one of the better reasons they try to telegraph what they're doing, so people don't get caught. The institutions that have taken decisions that might put them into harm's way are probably fewer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20856]]></link><description><![CDATA[He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a safety reminder, all motorists must constantly be aware of smaller vehicles, including motorcycles, on our roadways, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31871]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a safety reminder, all motorists must constantly be aware of smaller vehicles, including motorcycles, on our roadways,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[According to Doug Allen, president of MastroNet, the rapidly growing Americana division provided fertile ground for establishing some new favorite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33926]]></link><description><![CDATA[[According to Doug Allen, president of MastroNet, the rapidly growing Americana division provided fertile ground for establishing some new favorite collecting items and areas of interest.] There can be little doubt that Americana collectors are increasing in numbers, ... With each auction we see new categories of collectibles emerging, many with selling prices that seem to be giving previously obscure items new value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23133]]></link><description><![CDATA[By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23133</guid></item></channel></rss>