<?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[We don't want this issue hanging over our heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want this issue hanging over our heads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have all types, and we have all ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have all types, and we have all ages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22847]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little weunderstand about life, ourselves, and the world around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22758]]></link><description><![CDATA[True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little weunderstand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that there is consumer demand for energy efficient homes, these classes will give contractors the tools to meet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that there is consumer demand for energy efficient homes, these classes will give contractors the tools to meet that demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To greed, all nature is insufficient. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18296]]></link><description><![CDATA[To greed, all nature is insufficient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56860]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The practical organization offers opportunities for self-advancement, and its appeal is mainly to self-interest. On the other hand, a mass movement, particularly in its active, revivalist phase, appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self. A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did make a few adjustments at halftime, but part of that is probably North had a big lead and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32488]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did make a few adjustments at halftime, but part of that is probably North had a big lead and didn't play with the same intensity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5824]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t let people make you feel bad or guilty for living your life. It is your life, live it the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t let people make you feel bad or guilty for living your life. It is your life, live it the way you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz is the music of the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jazz is the music of the body]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In quiet places, reason abounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52799]]></link><description><![CDATA[In quiet places, reason abounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55521]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58790]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he is out for a long time he will be a huge loss because he has been magnificent over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39682]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he is out for a long time he will be a huge loss because he has been magnificent over the past few months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46653]]></link><description><![CDATA[With him most authors steal their works, or buy; Garth did not write his own Dispensary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brittany is our best closer. We're glad she's back. I thought tonight we came out in the first half afraid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brittany is our best closer. We're glad she's back. I thought tonight we came out in the first half afraid to make mistakes and sat back and watched things happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50299]]></link><description><![CDATA[My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a big inflation problem. Under those circumstances, you get a benign yield-curve inversion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40742]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a big inflation problem. Under those circumstances, you get a benign yield-curve inversion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7862]]></link><description><![CDATA[The missionary work of the non-professional missionary is essentially to live his daily life in Christ, and therefore with a difference, and to be able to explain, or at least to state, the reason and cause of the difference to men who see it... His preaching is essentially private conversation, and has at the back of it facts, facts of a life which explain and illustrate and enforce his words... It is such missionary work, done consciously and deliberately as missionary, that the world needs today. Everybody, Christian and pagan alike, respects such work; and, when it is so done, men wonder, and inquire into the secret of a life which they instinctively admire and covet for themselves... The spirit which inspires love of others and efforts after their well-being, both in body and soul, they cannot but admire and covet -- unless, indeed, seeing that it would reform their own lives, they dread and hate it, because they do not desire to be reformed. In either case, it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves. for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's put it this way, ... I wish it could have happened in the middle of the ocean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's put it this way, ... I wish it could have happened in the middle of the ocean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the most difficult day for me in my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31978]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the most difficult day for me in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15110]]></link><description><![CDATA[A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It walked around and seemed like she was OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41798]]></link><description><![CDATA[It walked around and seemed like she was OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10217]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57340]]></link><description><![CDATA[To return to the subject. (Literally, "to our mutton.") [Fr., Revenons a nos moutons.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3388]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3388</guid></item></channel></rss>