<?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[Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18937]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9623]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28126]]></link><description><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60052]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27984]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16394]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I broke a rib saving her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I broke a rib saving her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60100]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted from its roots. That's when I knew something bad was coming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66606]]></link><description><![CDATA[God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62045]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32987]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an important meeting for his administration. He'd like to show there's a new tone to Ottawa-Washington relations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33155]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you produce the right people in the right volumes with the right skills in the right place at the right time?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And a breastplate made of daisies, Closely fitting, leaf on leaf,  Periwinkles interlaced   Drawn for belt about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10980]]></link><description><![CDATA[And a breastplate made of daisies, Closely fitting, leaf on leaf,  Periwinkles interlaced   Drawn for belt about the waist;    While the brown bees, humming praises,     Shot their arrows round the chief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lie and listen to the hissing waves, Wherein our boat seems sharpening its keel,  Which on the sea's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lie and listen to the hissing waves, Wherein our boat seems sharpening its keel,  Which on the sea's face all unthankful graves   An arrowed scratch as with a tool of steel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least                     governed ...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650  Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the test of the new life sermon; the girding on of armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,  Wrought in a sad sincerity;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,  Wrought in a sad sincerity;   Himself from God he could not free;    He builded better than he knew;     The conscious stone to beauty grew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll do it with open arms, with a big heart [and] with a full understanding of the pragmatic challenges that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28717]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll do it with open arms, with a big heart [and] with a full understanding of the pragmatic challenges that are there,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow and be merry.  Make holiday: your rye-straw hats ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19577]]></link><description><![CDATA[You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow and be merry.  Make holiday: your rye-straw hats put on,   And these fresh nymphs encounter every one    In country footing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12696]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were a little bummed the rest of that night. We kind of didn't know what to say. It's like, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were a little bummed the rest of that night. We kind of didn't know what to say. It's like, why Utah? Why does that always have to happen to us against them? But we kept our heads high, knowing we had the NCAA Tournament to look forward to. We realize that we're not done and we have a chance to play at least one game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A reduction in green fees has helped, and when the weather is good, it's also a factor. There have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39890]]></link><description><![CDATA[A reduction in green fees has helped, and when the weather is good, it's also a factor. There have been times when the weather hasn't been the greatest, and we feel it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56843]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great mass of people will more easily fall victems to a big lie than to a small one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26162]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great mass of people will more easily fall victems to a big lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quotas, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quotas, but it's flowing much more smoothly from the ships to the stores than we saw in 2004,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19950]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has humanity, forewarned,   Will turn aside and let the reptile live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14093]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Mirabeau's work, then is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: "Abiit ad plures."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540 Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Does its successive journeys run, His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more. For him shall endless prayer be made,  And princes throng to crown his head; His name, like sweet perfume, shall rise With every morning sacrifice. People and realms of every tongue Dwell on his love with sweetest song, And infant-voices shall proclaim Their early blessings on his name. Blessings abound where'er he reigns; The prisoners leap to lose their chains; The weary find eternal rest, And all the sons of want are blest. Let every creature rise and bring Honors peculiar to our King; Angels descend with songs again, And earth repeat the loud amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58631]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hasty and the tardy meet at the ferry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882  The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our thought; that is, that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57021</guid></item></channel></rss>