<?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[Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's enough to send shivers down your spine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's enough to send shivers down your spine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We put a bite of food from every dish onto each plate and when they've gone through the line, their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42373]]></link><description><![CDATA[We put a bite of food from every dish onto each plate and when they've gone through the line, their plates are piled high. They were stuffed last year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the mother of Truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the mother of Truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing BellSouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you keep something alive and make it commercially viable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37111]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you keep something alive and make it commercially viable?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear, Remember Tam o'Shanter's mare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear, Remember Tam o'Shanter's mare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44701]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. -Marcus Aurelius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38541]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52697]]></link><description><![CDATA[A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to leave out the parts that people skip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  In several striking cases of conversion I have studied, those in need were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist  In several striking cases of conversion I have studied, those in need were inspired and affected, not merely by the kindness of an individual... but by the love and sympathy of the Church as a whole... Examples could be multiplied. This type of service is a great witness to the reality of Christian life and faith; but it presupposes a spirit of fellowship within the Church, a spirit which is all too rare. It means that there is mutual respect and trust between the minister and the members of his Church; and a spirit of fellowship which is outward-looking and which issues in service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24322]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39273]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he kind of looks up and says, 'Turn here.' Then, 'Turn here.' He had us make about five turns. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32757]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he kind of looks up and says, 'Turn here.' Then, 'Turn here.' He had us make about five turns. Now, by this time, I thought Ron was just full of B.S., that he couldn't possibly know where we were going. We were on little, two-lane, unmarked roads. But then, on the next turn, we pull right up in front of Florida State's stadium. It was incredible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9312]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money makes the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money makes the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66628]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66624]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no trend as of yet, because most people aren't really back yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30724]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no trend as of yet, because most people aren't really back yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not about how long we live but about how fulfilled we can get in the short time we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63276]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not about how long we live but about how fulfilled we can get in the short time we have to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With bated breath we offer wicked vows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50597]]></link><description><![CDATA[With bated breath we offer wicked vows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55279]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there is a worm in the lonely wood, That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,  And makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51688]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there is a worm in the lonely wood, That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,  And makes it a sorrow to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.  ... A. C. McGiffert, A History of Christian Thought  August 21, 2000   At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hold back your feelings because you are afraid of getting hurt, you end up hurting anyway ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62967]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hold back your feelings because you are afraid of getting hurt, you end up hurting anyway]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor ease nor peace that heart can know, That like the needle true,  Turns at the touch of joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor ease nor peace that heart can know, That like the needle true,  Turns at the touch of joy or woe;   But turning, trembles too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43736]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage  And pious action we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20233]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage  And pious action we do sugar o'er   The devil himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27394]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40750]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have people standing in line that want to be nurses. The problem is we don't have enough capacity in our nursing schools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th' invited neighbors to the husking come;  A frolic scene, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th' invited neighbors to the husking come;  A frolic scene, where work and mirth and play   Unite their charms to cheer the hours away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55938]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14829]]></link><description><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rascally yea-forsooth knave. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55908]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rascally yea-forsooth knave. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52123]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17671]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17671</guid></item></channel></rss>