<?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[Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privatization is the worst idea to try to protect Social Security. It's nuts. We have to find ways to keep pensions secure, as well as Social Security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Book and Heart Shall never part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45567]]></link><description><![CDATA[My Book and Heart Shall never part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274   Outward as well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274   Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?  Admires the jay the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove?  Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings?   Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11744]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,  When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,   Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66575]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can't get diseasesof Mad Chicken or Mad Pigby eating tomatoes oralmonds or figs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51979]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can't get diseasesof Mad Chicken or Mad Pigby eating tomatoes oralmonds or figs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[State level legislators can use these scientifically researched results to help make policy. It's a source of information to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39923]]></link><description><![CDATA[State level legislators can use these scientifically researched results to help make policy. It's a source of information to know what's going on in rural Iowa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/They came./ He pushed them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/ Come to the edge/ No, we will fall/They came./ He pushed them. And they flew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world willbe clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world willbe clean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dare to be wrong and to dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43234]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29994]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53265]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart.Then in living - I have made my mark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35194]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene,  With armes full strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44720]]></link><description><![CDATA[There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene,  With armes full strong and largely displayed,   But of their leaves they were disarayde    The bodie bigge, and mightely pight,     Thoroughly rooted, and of wond'rous hight;      Whilome had bene the king of the field,       And mochell mast to the husband did yielde,        And with his nuts larded many swine:         But now the gray mosse marred his rine;          His bared boughes were beaten with stormes,           His toppe was bald, and wasted with wormes,            His honour decayed, his brauches sere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11382]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13578]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landfill can serve as school of bad habits to teach bears to associate people with food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landfill can serve as school of bad habits to teach bears to associate people with food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3478]]></link><description><![CDATA[To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which can be entailed upon mankind is a state of war. All the atrocious crimes committed in years of peace -- all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions or by the thoughtless extravagances of nations -- are mere trifles compared with the gigantic evils which stalk over the world in a state of war. God is forgotten in war -- every principle of Christian charity is trampled upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57599]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13491]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this day and age, you hear more about kids being kidnapped or lured. It's different today than it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40767]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this day and age, you hear more about kids being kidnapped or lured. It's different today than it was 10 years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been very helpful and accommodating, and I like coming to a local business, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been very helpful and accommodating, and I like coming to a local business,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   Both from the confession of the evil spirits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   Both from the confession of the evil spirits and from the daily witness of His works, it is manifest, then, and let none presume to doubt it, that the Savior has raised His own body, and that He is very Son of God, having His being from God as from a Father, Whose Word and Wisdom and Whose Power He is. He it is Who in these latter days assumed a body for the salvation of us all, and taught the world concerning the Father. He it is Who has destroyed death and freely graced us all with incorruption through the promise of the resurrection, having raised His own body as its first-fruits, and displayed it by the sign of the cross as the monument to His victory over death and its corruption.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz with amazing melodies.. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz with amazing melodies.. Rock my world with the basics.. And make me sing acoustics.. Life is short.. Feel it with music..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends,  And the first salmon and the first green peas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4783]]></link><description><![CDATA[A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends,  And the first salmon and the first green peas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, in light of recent management changes and Rogers' evolving strategy to better ... control costs and improve cable results, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39016]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, in light of recent management changes and Rogers' evolving strategy to better ... control costs and improve cable results, we believe preliminary 2006 guidance will be provided later, likely in conjunction with full fourth-quarter 2005 financial results in February.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29035]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man Bitten by a DogA man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man Bitten by a DogA man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone who might heal him. A friend, meeting him and learning what he wanted, said, If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the Dog that bit you. The Man who had been bitten laughed at this advice and said, Why? If I should do so, it would be as if I should beg every Dog in the town to bite me. Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of injuring you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is the most powerful scream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is the most powerful scream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3162]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If I now want to add something of my own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If I now want to add something of my own (i.e., inner assurances) to this faith, if this great and glorious faith is defective and saves me not till I can add my own sense and my own feeling to it at such a time or place, is not this saying in the plainest manner that faith alone cannot justify me? ... All I would say of these inward delights and enjoyments is this: they are not holiness, they are not piety, they are not perfection, but they are God's gracious allurements and calls to seek after holiness and spiritual perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can definitely handle whatever they throw at him. Johnny's a cool cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30700]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can definitely handle whatever they throw at him. Johnny's a cool cat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pets are more sensitive to the needs of humansthan vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pets are more sensitive to the needs of humansthan vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[because the hole is down in the ground, not up in the air. My father always told me, 'You ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35603]]></link><description><![CDATA[because the hole is down in the ground, not up in the air. My father always told me, 'You ought to play basketball, where the hole is way up there.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17261]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is by nature a civic animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is by nature a civic animal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I consider how my light is spent  Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I consider how my light is spent  Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,  And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present  My true account, lest He returning chide,  "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need  Either man's work, or His own gifts. Who best  Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed,  And post o'er land and ocean without rest;  They also serve who only stand and wait.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8154</guid></item></channel></rss>