<?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[We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58189]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.'']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June,  Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;   Believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10729]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June,  Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;   Believe a woman or an epitaph,    Or any other thing that's false, before     You trust in critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is really more agreeable than pleasure: it interests the whole mind ... but it does not look as if it did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I can figure out without going into the motor is that it looks like it broke a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38158]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I can figure out without going into the motor is that it looks like it broke a main stud (one of three inside the engine which holds the crankshaft in place), ... From there, somehow it wedged the rod in the cylinder which eventually led to it breaking. As soon as it started, you could tell something was wrong. It was the first time in all my years in racing that I've seen something like this happen to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18297]]></link><description><![CDATA[You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58918]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66559]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly no group can as an entity create ideas. Only individuals can do this. A group of individuals may, however, stimulate one another in the creation of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12381]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,   He understood b' implicit faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, Unless the adage must be verified,  That beggars mounted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It needs not nor it boots thee not, proud queen, Unless the adage must be verified,  That beggars mounted run their horse to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28872]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23782]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's such a quantity of dogs out there. But people there aren't interested in adopting a dog off the street. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35249]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's such a quantity of dogs out there. But people there aren't interested in adopting a dog off the street. They're trying to rebuild their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never fall behind the curve. We lead the curve and we spread the gospel to other communities so we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never fall behind the curve. We lead the curve and we spread the gospel to other communities so we can, as a nation, step into the bright light of democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  God gave the prophecies, not to gratify men's curiosity by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and His own providence, not the interpreter's, be thereby manifested to the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask God often whether it be His honour and pleasure to take them away from you; for without Him you can do nothing. If he takes them away, thank Him; but if He does not do that, you will bear it no more, however, as the defect of a sin, but as a great trial with which you are to gain merit and practice patience. You should be content, whether or not He accords you His gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First of all, I could not believe it, ... Nobody in their right mind would have expected this drop in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40858]]></link><description><![CDATA[First of all, I could not believe it, ... Nobody in their right mind would have expected this drop in pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At halftime, I told them not to come out of the locker room unless they would come fight, scratch, claw, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33963]]></link><description><![CDATA[At halftime, I told them not to come out of the locker room unless they would come fight, scratch, claw, whatever they had to do until the end of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius,magic, and power in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius,magic, and power in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53889]]></link><description><![CDATA[In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;  One speaks the glory of the British queen,   And one describes a charming Indian screen;    A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;     At every word a reputation dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61798]]></link><description><![CDATA[What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66515]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still waters run no mills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still waters run no mills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9974]]></link><description><![CDATA[In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clever men are sometimes the dupes of their own cleverness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clever men are sometimes the dupes of their own cleverness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14481]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God’s work in our own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sort of takes the place of minutes. When there's any club business it's in the newsletter. It used to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sort of takes the place of minutes. When there's any club business it's in the newsletter. It used to be monthly but now it's quarterly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam was looking for a comedian to do a 7 o'clock show. Two years ago, I was up for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam was looking for a comedian to do a 7 o'clock show. Two years ago, I was up for a 10 o'clock show at another hotel, but I didn't want a 10 o'clock show. It isn't my crowd and I didn't think it would work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We purposely created Bob out of the ashes of George. I would be insane not to measure things against 'Seinfeld.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37332]]></link><description><![CDATA[We purposely created Bob out of the ashes of George. I would be insane not to measure things against 'Seinfeld.' I've stolen as much of the 'Seinfeld' crew as I could to give me a hedge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890  May I be patient! It is so difficult to make real what one believes, and to make these trials, as they are intended, real blessings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're using figures from the school district, their budget and we've used their maintenance list and we believe every word ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37885]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're using figures from the school district, their budget and we've used their maintenance list and we believe every word we have on the radio is accurate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59053]]></link><description><![CDATA[To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're one of the top one or two in the league, why should age be a question? It's different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38880]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're one of the top one or two in the league, why should age be a question? It's different if he's taking snaps and his rheumatism is acting up, you know what I mean?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, withering, fled--and Mercy sighed farewell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hmm, I do want to perform in Turin a little bit, but not being able to do so doesn't upset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hmm, I do want to perform in Turin a little bit, but not being able to do so doesn't upset me all that much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mind is not a bed to be made and remade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36979]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36979</guid></item></channel></rss>