<?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[Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing of the past. They are proclaiming now their contempt for Christ's character, and their disgust at the very name of love. Scorn and hatred, difference and division, must be more than ever our lot, if we would be the followers of Christ in these days. Conventional religion and polite unbelief are gone forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. [Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum;  Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo;   Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras,    Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit.     . . . .      Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae       Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu,        Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28861]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think the last goal was the point where things changed. I shouldn't have taken the two minutes, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think the last goal was the point where things changed. I shouldn't have taken the two minutes, and I should have stopped more pucks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit had made the custom. [Lat., Morem fecerat usus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit had made the custom. [Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things orbidden have a secret charm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things orbidden have a secret charm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing real can be threatened.Nothing unreal exists.(Helen Schucman over 7 years wrote the Course In Miracles). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing real can be threatened.Nothing unreal exists.(Helen Schucman over 7 years wrote the Course In Miracles).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a weakening trend showing up in the numbers since June. It does appear over the last few months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29642]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a weakening trend showing up in the numbers since June. It does appear over the last few months that we're hitting a soft patch of our own. I'm sure that's discouraging to those looking for a job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory--death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory--death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just as it did for the original writers. Nevertheless, the background to the New Testament is one of expectation of resurrection, and only the historical rising-again of Jesus makes sense of the narrative in this context.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shouldn't have trusted her. It was wrong, I've realized it now. But she was there, she was friendly, she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shouldn't have trusted her. It was wrong, I've realized it now. But she was there, she was friendly, she was warm, someone I thought I could trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who fears his servants is less than a servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51607]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who fears his servants is less than a servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39982]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5306]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prologues like compliments are loss of time; 'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/872]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55184]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/991]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow and the scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather;  Ah me! this glory and this grief   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow and the scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather;  Ah me! this glory and this grief   Agree not well together!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung  With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19889]]></link><description><![CDATA[My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind: So flewed, so sanded, and their heads are hung  With ears that sweep away the morning dew;   Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls;    Slow in pursuit, but matched in mouth like bells,     Each under each.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its like buying a bottle of milk and getting a bottle of orange........you just would not accept it would you???? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its like buying a bottle of milk and getting a bottle of orange........you just would not accept it would you????]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there is no respect of persons with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17684]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there is no respect of persons with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intend some fear; Be not you spoke with but by mighty suit;  And look you get a prayer book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intend some fear; Be not you spoke with but by mighty suit;  And look you get a prayer book in your hand   And stand between two churchmen, good my lord,    For on that ground I'll make a holy descant;     And be not easily won to our requests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43303]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend,  With love that cannot brook delay,   To rise and follow the ways that wend    Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17472]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19927]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audemus jura nostra defendere [We dare defend our rights] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Audemus jura nostra defendere [We dare defend our rights]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46608</guid></item></channel></rss>