<?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[I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27846]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These paintings originally were painted for people who just wanted to relax and escape the realities of their world, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41235]]></link><description><![CDATA[These paintings originally were painted for people who just wanted to relax and escape the realities of their world, like pollution and overpopulation. And they still offer us a tremendous escape. They're really just luscious paintings. There's nothing that can substitute for art that is about sensuality and beauty, and that's what we're offering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. - The Business of Life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that we are operating appropriately and effectively in the current setting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that we are operating appropriately and effectively in the current setting,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you say no, you could be jailed for two years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36673]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you say no, you could be jailed for two years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(They are unknown) because they had no bard to sing their praises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50367]]></link><description><![CDATA[(They are unknown) because they had no bard to sing their praises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66103]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  The Old Testament does not occupy itself with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary  The Old Testament does not occupy itself with how Israel thought of God. Its concern is with how Israel ought to think of God. To it, the existence of God is not an open question, nor His nature, nor the accessibility of knowledge of Him. God Himself has taken care of that He has made Himself known to His people, and their business is not to feel after Him if haply they may fumblingly find Him, but to hearken to Him as He declares to them what and who He is. [Continued].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9039]]></link><description><![CDATA[The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either every robot can dance the robot, or no robot can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either every robot can dance the robot, or no robot can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the public really is going to react to this is if we can get through the legislative process. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38379]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the public really is going to react to this is if we can get through the legislative process. And we don't feel it's worth going too far with it right now because we don't know what will happen at the legislature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, whatever, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, whatever,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument  About it and about: but evermore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument  About it and about: but evermore   Came out by the same door wherein I went.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money begets money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money begets money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing fundraising, providing food, housing clothing, whatever she needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing fundraising, providing food, housing clothing, whatever she needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are idols of hearts and of households; They are angels of God in disguise;  His sunlight still sleeps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5904]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are idols of hearts and of households; They are angels of God in disguise;  His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses,   His glory still gleams in their eyes;    Those truants from home and from Heaven     They have made me more manly and mild;      And I know now how Jesus could liken       The kingdom of God to a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone you know you don't belong with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone you know you don't belong with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I light my candle from their torches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25049]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I light my candle from their torches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By magic numbers and persuasive sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57290]]></link><description><![CDATA[By magic numbers and persuasive sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe that if we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52300]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe that if we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29010]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was important for us to be patient and see what they were giving us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39526]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was important for us to be patient and see what they were giving us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10805]]></link><description><![CDATA[All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy is second nature for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy is second nature for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62994]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting!Man is constantly building the "Image."It is an Edifice for the entombment of bones!Best to "Realize" the temporal nature of thingsand simply "Do and Die!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9609]]></link><description><![CDATA[In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't expect when they all started to be this successful and to get that many people involved. You always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29355]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't expect when they all started to be this successful and to get that many people involved. You always push that threat and say, 'Well, we're going to hold you accountable, we're going to tell everybody,' and one out of every 10 times it works out. This time it did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26322]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was close. I'm going, 'Oh gosh,' but it was exciting for it to be our first game too. We're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42022]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was close. I'm going, 'Oh gosh,' but it was exciting for it to be our first game too. We're trying to have a winning season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, is the everlasting absence of God, and the everlasting impossibility of returning to his presence; sayes the Apostle, it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Yet there was a case, in which David found an ease, to fall into the hands of God, to scape the hands of men: When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearefull thing, to fall into the hands of the living God; but to fall out of the hands of the living God, is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house.  I am sent, with broom, before,   To sweep the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house.  I am sent, with broom, before,   To sweep the dust behind the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our patience will achieve more than our force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our patience will achieve more than our force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Days are scrolls: Write on them only what you wantremembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Days are scrolls: Write on them only what you wantremembered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21784</guid></item></channel></rss>