<?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[The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52737]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48090]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They try to stick to their game plan. They've been winning games. They're not going to change up just because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30520]]></link><description><![CDATA[They try to stick to their game plan. They've been winning games. They're not going to change up just because other teams do something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26781]]></link><description><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reunion after long separation is even better than one's wedding night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reunion after long separation is even better than one's wedding night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men have more consideration for themselves than for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51733]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men have more consideration for themselves than for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a situation of chaos in the military line of command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40297]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a situation of chaos in the military line of command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,—which is an excellent thing. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54241]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us;  The Bust out-lasts the throne,--   The coin, Tiberius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3177]]></link><description><![CDATA[All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us;  The Bust out-lasts the throne,--   The coin, Tiberius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;  These first induce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52617]]></link><description><![CDATA[From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;  These first induce him the vile trash to try,   Then lend his name, that other men may buy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951   How often we look upon God as our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951   How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be adult is to be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25469]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be adult is to be alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29958]]></link><description><![CDATA[I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is part of our compliance with the Press Law, which bans all obscene publications. It is also part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is part of our compliance with the Press Law, which bans all obscene publications. It is also part of our agreement with our owners, the U.S. Playboy magazine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first start I had better stuff. My arm didn't feel as good today as the first game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30843]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first start I had better stuff. My arm didn't feel as good today as the first game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they flow,   That can no comfort bring,    That can, that can no comfort bring,     With those exciting scenes will blend,      O'er pleasure's pathway thrown;       But mem'ry is the only friend        That grief can call its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - The Heart's Domain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't even know what street Canada is on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't even know what street Canada is on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35301]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musick helps not the tooth-ach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musick helps not the tooth-ach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything done for another is done for oneself. [Lat., Qui facit per alium facit per se.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything done for another is done for oneself. [Lat., Qui facit per alium facit per se.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Irresponsible spending is the scandal of Christian America, in the face ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Irresponsible spending is the scandal of Christian America, in the face of the world's need. The American standard of living has risen to unprecedented heights, although a large portion of the world exists on a sub-human level. Philanthropy, as we practice it, is not enough --- although the word philanthropy actually means brotherhood. Our stewardship of God's goods requires that we administer in God's name -- that is, with full awareness that the world is His and that His love is directed toward us no more fully than toward every man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23970]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now for good lucke, cast an old shooe after mee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11191]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5023]]></link><description><![CDATA[You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (steam) sterilizers right now use 9,000 watts of electricity each, and these will be down to 1,500 watts apiece. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (steam) sterilizers right now use 9,000 watts of electricity each, and these will be down to 1,500 watts apiece. That's a big savings. You maybe don't have to bring along as many generators. You don't burn as much fuel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40971]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of any man's character is how he takes praise ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of any man's character is how he takes praise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3573</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[When people revolt in a totalitarian society, they rise not against the wickedness of the regime but its weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47604]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people revolt in a totalitarian society, they rise not against the wickedness of the regime but its weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way -- by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12865]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the biggest drivers in the male marketplace now in cosmetic surgery is men who are 40-plus who use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42563]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the biggest drivers in the male marketplace now in cosmetic surgery is men who are 40-plus who use this as a tool to look healthy, to look young, to look vibrant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55612]]></link><description><![CDATA[You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8357]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8357</guid></item></channel></rss>