<?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[Enemies promises were made to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enemies promises were made to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1132]]></link><description><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see in the market any real driving forces. People aren't too excited one way or another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30761]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see in the market any real driving forces. People aren't too excited one way or another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you speak insults you will hear them also. [Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22845]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you speak insults you will hear them also. [Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashions fade, style is eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashions fade, style is eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the best counsel is that of woman. [Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo  Ha de ser ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/776]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the best counsel is that of woman. [Sp., Dicen, que el primer consejo  Ha de ser de la muger.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down;  Each thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down;  Each thought on the woman who loved him the best,   And the children stood watching them out of the town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game was closer than the score indicated.(after a 1-0 game) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game was closer than the score indicated.(after a 1-0 game)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19]]></link><description><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/They came./ He pushed them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/They came./ He pushed them. And they flew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Blessington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27225]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Blessington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12533]]></link><description><![CDATA[What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -John ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55241]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -John Wooden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's weird. I mean, he's a dream, a fantasy, and, if he becomes real, it's like he's not mine anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's weird. I mean, he's a dream, a fantasy, and, if he becomes real, it's like he's not mine anymore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is the art of saying nothing in such a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is the art of saying nothing in such a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anger rises, think of the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9841]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anger rises, think of the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26456]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well--  That is light grieving!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3411]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44730]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20768]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897  Most of our conflicts and difficulties come from trying to deal with the spiritual and practical aspects of our life separately instead of realizing them as parts of one whole. If our practical life is centered on our own interests, cluttered up by possessions, distracted by ambitions, passions, wants and worries, beset by a sense of our own rights and importance, or anxieties for our own future, or longings for our own success, we need not expect that our spiritual life will be a contrast to all this. The soul's house is not built on such a convenient plan; there are few soundproof partitions in it. Only when the conviction -- not merely the idea -- that the demand of the Spirit, however inconvenient, rules the whole of it, will those objectionable noises die down which have a way of penetrating into the nicely furnished little oratory and drowning all the quieter voices by their din.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is usually thinking about something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the greatest of all religions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is thrust upon us, and we must take it whether we will or not. Happiest is he who takes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is thrust upon us, and we must take it whether we will or not. Happiest is he who takes it most completely and most joyfully, but also most seriously and with the deepest sense of its dangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory! Arthur C]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, January is slow. ... Why not? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, January is slow. ... Why not?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread,  And they brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread,  And they brought back bodies of living men,   But their eyes were fold and dead.    So, Buddy no matter what else the fame,     No matter what else the prize,      I want you to come back thru The Flame       With the boy-look still in your eyes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en his failings leaned to virtue's side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48988]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en his failings leaned to virtue's side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great mass of people will more easily fall victems to a big lie than to a small one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26162]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great mass of people will more easily fall victems to a big lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday  The apologetic of the New Testament, and of the early centuries generally, was addressed to men who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday  The apologetic of the New Testament, and of the early centuries generally, was addressed to men who had been brought up within one or other of the great pre-Christian religious systems and who had staunchly defended their own inherited traditions against the innovation of the Christian outlook; whereas any apologetic that is to be effective in this country today must be addressed to men who stand within the inheritance of the Christian tradition and know nothing, save by hearsay, of any other, but who have now in varying degrees disengaged themselves from this tradition and whose quarrel with Christianity is therefore undertaken from the point of view either of no religion at all or of some very vague and tenuous residuum of Christian religiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If my best wines mislike thy taste, And my best service win thy frown,  Then tarry not, I bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19853]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my best wines mislike thy taste, And my best service win thy frown,  Then tarry not, I bid thee haste;   There's many another Inn in town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19853</guid></item></channel></rss>