<?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 man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15434]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was pretty pleased with the way we responded to being down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was pretty pleased with the way we responded to being down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -Ed Asner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. -Ed Asner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is high, and everyone has been coming together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm is high, and everyone has been coming together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26923]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9412]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942    There is [in these Wesleyan hymns] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942    There is [in these Wesleyan hymns] the solid structure of historic dogma; there is the passionate thrill of present experience; but there is, too, the glory of a mystic sunlight coming directly from another world. This transfigures history and experience. This puts past and present into the timeless, eternal now. This brings together God and man until Wesley talks with God as a man talks with his friend. This gives to the hymnbook its divine audacity, those passages only to be understood by such as have sat in heavenly places in Christ Jesus and, being caught up into paradise, have heard unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The following year will certainly be looked at as a transition period. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The following year will certainly be looked at as a transition period.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60086]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46445]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposition seems to be very disorganized, weak, ... Their attempts to create a pre-revolutionary situation in Azerbaijan failed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36705]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposition seems to be very disorganized, weak, ... Their attempts to create a pre-revolutionary situation in Azerbaijan failed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/794]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has no religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53440]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has no religion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27855]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stew all night in my own grease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52559]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stew all night in my own grease.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,  Out-topping knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,  Out-topping knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightsticklike a posthole digger.(in reference to the death by ruptured kidneyand other factors after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightsticklike a posthole digger.(in reference to the death by ruptured kidneyand other factors after the clubbing of Nathaniel Jonesby 2 Cincinnati policemen).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Sorrow I bade good-morrow,  And though to leave her far away behind;   But cheerly, cheerly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57256]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Sorrow I bade good-morrow,  And though to leave her far away behind;   But cheerly, cheerly,    She loves me dearly:     She is so constant to me, and so kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is often attended with danger. [Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35096]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing because of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37454]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing because of the extent he's gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60407]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22526]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be who you are and be that well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be who you are and be that well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48660]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made my money by selling too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15903]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made my money by selling too soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The course of true love never did run smooth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The course of true love never did run smooth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kisses: Words which cannot be written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kisses: Words which cannot be written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been close to decision-making for a long time and observed several prime ministers. He's had all the training that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34783]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been close to decision-making for a long time and observed several prime ministers. He's had all the training that's required and he certainly has the capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always in season for old men to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always in season for old men to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best proof of love is trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best proof of love is trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and we try to accommodate all of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29134]]></link><description><![CDATA[and we try to accommodate all of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But as for all the rest, There's hardly one (I may say none) who stands the Artist's test.  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/417]]></link><description><![CDATA[But as for all the rest, There's hardly one (I may say none) who stands the Artist's test.  The Artist is a rare, rare breed. There were but two, forsooth,   In all me time (the stage's prime!) and The Other One was Booth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8787]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every county gets money under this plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every county gets money under this plan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35292</guid></item></channel></rss>