<?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[That good diffused may more abundant grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17851]]></link><description><![CDATA[That good diffused may more abundant grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62367]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell you that which you yourselves do know, Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,  And bid them speak for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We didn't come out focused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42100]]></link><description><![CDATA[We didn't come out focused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23919]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43387]]></link><description><![CDATA[You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28063]]></link><description><![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells -- and he smelled real nice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us -- an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God...  Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you...  Prayer is communion. Prayer is a means, but often it is an end in itself. There are times when your own wants and the needs of others drop away and you want just to look on His face and tell Him how much you love Him...  Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14617]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12122]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11193]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[That, she said, was because, while Baton Rouge escaped most of the damage suffered by the Big Easy, it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38812]]></link><description><![CDATA[[That, she said, was because, while Baton Rouge escaped most of the damage suffered by the Big Easy, it was a primary evacuation point for residents from the more southerly parishes -- counties -- of Louisiana.] So there were more people, ... and so there was more crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56571]]></link><description><![CDATA[In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58715]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18572]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,  And pity 'tis 'tis true--a foolish figure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has certainly been an exceptional year. The index surged to record highs that no one had expected. High oil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28925]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has certainly been an exceptional year. The index surged to record highs that no one had expected. High oil prices played a pivotal role in the market's magnificent run, as they did in stock markets in neighboring oil-rich Gulf States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All authority belongs to the people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3481]]></link><description><![CDATA[All authority belongs to the people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,  They kindly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,  They kindly leave us, though not quite alone,   But in good company--the gout or stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61728]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10000]]></link><description><![CDATA[They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16494]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every cock fights best on his own dunghill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We closed 2001 with exceptional financial results, achieving record revenues, strong cash flow and enhanced operational profitability while lowering our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38627]]></link><description><![CDATA[We closed 2001 with exceptional financial results, achieving record revenues, strong cash flow and enhanced operational profitability while lowering our debt by more than $430 million,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52115]]></link><description><![CDATA[We envy those whose possessions or achievements are a reflection on our own. They are our neighbors and equals. It is they, above all who make plain the nature of our failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44987]]></link><description><![CDATA[A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pile Ossa upon Pelion. [Lat., Imponere Pelio Ossam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43319]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pile Ossa upon Pelion. [Lat., Imponere Pelio Ossam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may never see base salary increases in the mid-to-upper 4 percent range again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39797]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may never see base salary increases in the mid-to-upper 4 percent range again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22218]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That unlettered small-knowing soul. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55474]]></link><description><![CDATA[That unlettered small-knowing soul. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901   Nor is the fact that a particular form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901   Nor is the fact that a particular form was good in a particular age any proof that it is also good for another age. The history of the organization of Christianity has been in reality the history of successive readjustments of form to altered circumstances. Its power of readjustment has been at once a mark of its divinity and a secret of its strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65834]]></link><description><![CDATA[... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2241</guid></item></channel></rss>