<?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[A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is no burden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is no burden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37529]]></link><description><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental consequences to students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're sort of like a little ballerina shoe, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35799]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're sort of like a little ballerina shoe,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All these indexes reflect the basic obligations of the government in managing society and offering services to the public under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36624]]></link><description><![CDATA[All these indexes reflect the basic obligations of the government in managing society and offering services to the public under the market economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One flower makes no garland. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49689]]></link><description><![CDATA[One flower makes no garland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29754]]></link><description><![CDATA[That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning -- I was glad it was this morning. When you have a game like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40025]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I woke up this morning -- I was glad it was this morning. When you have a game like that, you just pick up and move on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But an untimely grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18217]]></link><description><![CDATA[But an untimely grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle  There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there either; but they that begin first to inquire will soonest be gladdened with revelation; and with them He will be best pleased, for the slowness of His disciples troubled Him of old. To say that we must wait for the other world, to know the mind of Him who came to this world to give Himself to us, seems to me the foolishness of a worldly and lazy spirit. The Son of God is the teacher of men, giving to them of His Spirit -- that Spirit which manifests the deep things of God, being to a man the mind of Christ. The great heresy of the Church of the present day is unbelief in this Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who feels no compassion will become insane. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9183]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who feels no compassion will become insane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're getting a collection of Irish and Scottish music going, which is fun and it really gets people stomping their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're getting a collection of Irish and Scottish music going, which is fun and it really gets people stomping their feet. They're not so much singing along, unless they know the words and then they get started.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4054]]></link><description><![CDATA[For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54288]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Armes of England will not arme feare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49108]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the Armes of England will not arme feare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60272]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8540]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. -Israel Zangwill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring  To revel in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4386]]></link><description><![CDATA[From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring  To revel in the roses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one with an intense social consciousness, if it does not fill one with a sense of overwhelming responsibility for the world. It has been said... truly that the Church exists for those outside of itself. The Church must never be in any sense a little huddle of pious people, shutting their doors against the world, lost in prayer and praise, connoisseurs of preaching and liturgy, busy mutually congratulating themselves on the excellence of their Christian experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are building may splendid churches in this country, but we are not providing leaders to run them. I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7386]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are building may splendid churches in this country, but we are not providing leaders to run them. I would rather have a wooden church with a splendid parson, than a splendid church with a wooden parson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. [Lat., Incisa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. [Lat., Incisa notis marmora publicis,  Per quae spiritus et vita redit bonis   Post mortem ducibus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. •Edmund Burke  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44393]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. •Edmund Burke    Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24308]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16176]]></link><description><![CDATA[What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27017]]></link><description><![CDATA[By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get my wayI don't believe in soft solutionsNo one makes a fool of meWithout receiving retributionNo one hurts me and goes freeI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downI've heard it said, to err is humanIt's forgiveness that's divineI thought about forgiving you, butI want revenge, I want what's mineI think it's time to settle scores nowIt's time to set the record straightYou'll know it's coming, you won't know howOr when, you'll have to watch and waitI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downYou know, it feels intoxicatingTo be intimidatingIt's invigoratingTo see you shakingI've got the power to bring you downYou know something, you see it coming, You know I will stop at nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, here her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high,  And many an eye has danced to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, here her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high,  And many an eye has danced to see   That banner in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54050]]></link><description><![CDATA[What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary;  The vine still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind in never weary;  The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,   But at every gust the dead leaves fall,    And the day is dark and dreary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nursing home and hospital share the dining room, but that's all. We are in space that was vacant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nursing home and hospital share the dining room, but that's all. We are in space that was vacant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good strategy to take aim at this generation. They've finished raising children and they've paid off their mortgages, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good strategy to take aim at this generation. They've finished raising children and they've paid off their mortgages, so all that cash is sitting in their pockets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much easier is it to be generous than just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17267]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much easier is it to be generous than just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17267</guid></item></channel></rss>