<?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[Failure is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13414]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13116]]></link><description><![CDATA[The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. So]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us! [Fr., Combien de choses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14981]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us! [Fr., Combien de choses nous servoient heir d'articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd'hui!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26899]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know who we are until we see what we can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22406]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent  A shout that tore hell's concave, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent  A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond   Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4092]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood--  Our soldiers were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13191]]></link><description><![CDATA[When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood--  Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good.   Oh! the roast beef of England.    And Old England's roast beef.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We read to know we are not alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52990]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read to know we are not alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God doesn't believe in the easy way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36992]]></link><description><![CDATA[God doesn't believe in the easy way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suspect that hunger was my mother. [Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20157]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suspect that hunger was my mother. [Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's history being made. More than that, I don't think you can send 140,000 soldiers out there, young guys from Kansas and Alabama and all over the place, and not take some of the same risks that you're asking them to take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The overall strategy over the next five years is to gain control of the border. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The overall strategy over the next five years is to gain control of the border.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38320]]></link><description><![CDATA[It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was negotiating a contract to accept Jesus as my personal savior, but he refused to recognize my free sex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44354]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was negotiating a contract to accept Jesus as my personal savior, but he refused to recognize my free sex clause]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63972]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19317]]></link><description><![CDATA[All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  The word religion is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  The word religion is extremely rare in the New Testament and the writings of mystics. The reason is simple. Those attitudes and practices to which we give the collective name of religion are themselves concerned with religion hardly at all. To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God. Therefore, almost by definition, a religious man, or a man when he is being religious, is not thinking about religion; he hasn't the time. Religion is what we (or he himself at a later moment) call his activity from outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12917]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41651]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had that same fire and desire that we had at the beginning of the season. Everyone worked hard. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39441]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had that same fire and desire that we had at the beginning of the season. Everyone worked hard. It's like we entered the next part of our season. It's exciting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got four really good games left and then the playoffs. We're going to have to bring our 'A' game ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42101]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got four really good games left and then the playoffs. We're going to have to bring our 'A' game the rest of the way out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am nothing and to nothing tend, On earth I nothing have and nothing claim,  Man's noblest works must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am nothing and to nothing tend, On earth I nothing have and nothing claim,  Man's noblest works must have one common end,   And nothing crown the tablet of his name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12835]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1610]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3237]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47102]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   True it is that every man willingly followeth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   True it is that every man willingly followeth his own bent, and is the more inclined to those who agree with him. But if Christ is amongst us, then it is necessary that we sometimes yield up our own opinion for the sake of peace. Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Though thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38955]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66379]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None so blind as those that will not see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4337]]></link><description><![CDATA[None so blind as those that will not see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live peaceably with all breedes good blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50009]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14455]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. ... We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find;  Lo! as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24834]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find;  Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life,   A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46317]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces  That which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3518]]></link><description><![CDATA[But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces  That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3518</guid></item></channel></rss>