<?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 cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said true things, but called them by wrong names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59811]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said true things, but called them by wrong names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44016]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What care if the day Be turned to gray,  What care if the night come soon!   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21000]]></link><description><![CDATA[What care if the day Be turned to gray,  What care if the night come soon!   We may choose the pace    Who bow for grace,     At the Inn of the Silver Moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Christ erecteth his church, the divell in the same church-yarde will have his chappell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where Christ erecteth his church, the divell in the same church-yarde will have his chappell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1955]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thine own purpose, thou hast sent The strife and the discouragement! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46159]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thine own purpose, thou hast sent The strife and the discouragement!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard nothing whatsoever about this alleged media speculation. This is a matter for the judiciary to decide on, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard nothing whatsoever about this alleged media speculation. This is a matter for the judiciary to decide on, not for politicians and Jalal should know better than that. Why should he make a statement on the accused to the public? The court, the judge need to decide on this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the Maastricht Treaty, the problem is that we need to decrease public resources in France, so we do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36628]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the Maastricht Treaty, the problem is that we need to decrease public resources in France, so we do not have enough security agents here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're happy to support organizations like the YMCA that support great programs in the communities that we serve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34618]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're happy to support organizations like the YMCA that support great programs in the communities that we serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44329]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60289]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32171]]></link><description><![CDATA[These kids are so desperate for the dream that almost nothing will deter them. Most of the time, they will follow blindly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6090]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son and a father. -Lance Armstrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14524]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63546]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24876]]></link><description><![CDATA[And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jake did a good job for us on the mound and really did a good job keeping their offense shutdown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jake did a good job for us on the mound and really did a good job keeping their offense shutdown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15949]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point ofreality—to make something real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21836]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes only one other person to say it's so—one other point ofreality—to make something real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62812]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japanese pension funds and institutions will likely accelerate their buying from October when the second half of this business year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Japanese pension funds and institutions will likely accelerate their buying from October when the second half of this business year starts. We are seeing one of the best buying chances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55116]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other. The music people . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other. The music people . . . they give thanks for the gift and reflect the love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind:  Invisible to mortal eyes they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind:  Invisible to mortal eyes they go,   And mark our actions, good or bad, below:    The immortal spies with watchful care preside,     And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide:      They can reward with glory or with gold,       A power they by Divine permission hold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44515]]></link><description><![CDATA[In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. I don’t know. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t. I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, the United Iraqi Alliance, were surprised by the results. We were expecting more seats. The opponents have made it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, the United Iraqi Alliance, were surprised by the results. We were expecting more seats. The opponents have made it clear through their statements and warnings that they stand alongside the terrorists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall!  Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow   He would be coy, and would not love at all;    Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought,     Than love united to a jealous thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,  The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind,   And make a checkered shadow on the ground;    Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,     And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,      Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,       As if a double hunt were heard at once,        Let us sit down and mark their yellowing noise;         And after conflict such as was supposed          The wand'ring prince and Dido once enjoyed,           When with a happy storm they were surprised,            And curtained with a counsel-keeping cave,             We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,              Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber,               Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds                Be unto us as is a nurse's song                 Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to someone who doesn't know how to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our Lord began his ministry he announced a manifesto, far more comprehensive, thoroughgoing, and revolutionary than any socialism, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6490]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our Lord began his ministry he announced a manifesto, far more comprehensive, thoroughgoing, and revolutionary than any socialism, which spoke of the good news to the poor, release for prisoners, and recovery of sight to the blind. The Church must learn to stand solidly behind all efforts to bring fuller life to people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15027]]></link><description><![CDATA[In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face,  The heart whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face,  The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,   And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a great ride, and it's time to move on to other things, but not without mixed feelings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33460]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a great ride, and it's time to move on to other things, but not without mixed feelings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62043]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight,  And wrangle and jangle, and plunder.   - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How disappointment tracks the steps of hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12374]]></link><description><![CDATA[How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the issues before I or others burn their boats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21233]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21233</guid></item></channel></rss>