<?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[everyone out there stay there, everyone in the locker room, go to the ring, we're having a team meeting! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39815]]></link><description><![CDATA[everyone out there stay there, everyone in the locker room, go to the ring, we're having a team meeting!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23342]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/990]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   I think I have never heard a sermon preached on the story of Mary and Martha that did not attempt, somehow, somewhere, to explain away its text. Mary's, of course, was the better part -- the Lord said so, and we must not precisely contradict Him. But we will be careful not to despise Martha. No doubt, He approved of her, too. We could not get on without her, and indeed, having paid lip-service to God's opinion, we must admit that we greatly prefer her, for Martha was doing a really feminine job, whereas Mary was just behaving like any other disciple; and that is a hard pill to swallow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people deserve to know that they're not just watching the administration's spin on their local newscasts -- they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people deserve to know that they're not just watching the administration's spin on their local newscasts -- they're paying for it, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good deed is like peeing in your pants. Everyone knows you did it, but only you can feel it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11656]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good deed is like peeing in your pants. Everyone knows you did it, but only you can feel it's warmth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to believe that with the signing of this agreement today, Liberia will never be plunged into another spiral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to believe that with the signing of this agreement today, Liberia will never be plunged into another spiral of violence in the quest for political power, or under the false pretense of liberating the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? [Lat., Quid datur a divis felici optatius ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18641]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour? [Lat., Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:  As, painfully to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:  As, painfully to pore upon a book,   To seek the light of truth, which truth the while    Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results comes from living in the present not the past]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17721]]></link><description><![CDATA[How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34940]]></link><description><![CDATA[will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that Time Inc. found itself in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915   A conversion is incomplete if it does not leave one with an intense social consciousness, if it does not fill one with a sense of overwhelming responsibility for the world. It has been said... truly that the Church exists for those outside of itself. The Church must never be in any sense a little huddle of pious people, shutting their doors against the world, lost in prayer and praise, connoisseurs of preaching and liturgy, busy mutually congratulating themselves on the excellence of their Christian experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IPPA supports new processing opportunities and what we believe those opportunities will bring to producers. We look forward to supporting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35423]]></link><description><![CDATA[IPPA supports new processing opportunities and what we believe those opportunities will bring to producers. We look forward to supporting Trim-Rite in their efforts to build a new state of the art facility here in Illinois.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking he SAT is like going to the doctor. It scares the willies out of you, but once you get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taking he SAT is like going to the doctor. It scares the willies out of you, but once you get there it's really not that bad, and in the end it's all for the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government cannot but judge extremely severely such criticisms, which are even more unacceptable coming from someone who holds an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government cannot but judge extremely severely such criticisms, which are even more unacceptable coming from someone who holds an official position in another European Union country,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ignore the small things -- the kite flies because of its tail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ignore the small things -- the kite flies because of its tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole family is packed into one trap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole family is packed into one trap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29547]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47158]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18593]]></link><description><![CDATA[One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking; So full of valor that they smote the air  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told you, sir, they were redhot with drinking; So full of valor that they smote the air  For breathing in their faces, beat the ground,   For kissing of their feet; yet always bending    Towards their project.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health-care costs have been their No. 1 concern for 20 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health-care costs have been their No. 1 concern for 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below,  Which always find us young   And always keep us so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below,  Which always find us young   And always keep us so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You start out massively over-eating because portions are larger, and things get activated in the brain and liver that fuel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41067]]></link><description><![CDATA[You start out massively over-eating because portions are larger, and things get activated in the brain and liver that fuel the upward movement in body weight,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took a big step between Monroe and Lake. That has to continue to be competitive in our league, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33621]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took a big step between Monroe and Lake. That has to continue to be competitive in our league, because everyone in our league is a challenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27311]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of human kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of human kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Critics complained it wasn't opera, it wasn't a musical. You give someone something delicious to eat and they complain because they have no name for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much of human life is lost in waiting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61076]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much of human life is lost in waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543   But in rejecting the [Bible's illustrations of eternal punishment] as grotesque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543   But in rejecting the [Bible's illustrations of eternal punishment] as grotesque and even immoral, many people make the mistake of rejecting the truth it illustrated (which is rather like rejecting a book as untrue because the pictures in it are bad). It is illogical to tell men that they must do the will of God and accept his gospel of grace, if you also tell them that the obligation has no eternal significance, and that nothing ultimately depends on it. The curious modern heresy that everything is bound to come right in the end is so frivolous that I will not insult you by refuting it. "I remember," said Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on one occasion, "that my Maker has said that he will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left." That is a solemn truth which only the empty-headed and empty-hearted will neglect. It strikes at the very roots of life and destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12482]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19052]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. •Deepak Chopra   Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. •Ovid   Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   A heart in love with beauty never grows old. •Turkish Proverb   To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27314</guid></item></channel></rss>