<?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[With the proper revisions, this bill will support the important work that charitable organizations do in every community in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33559]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the proper revisions, this bill will support the important work that charitable organizations do in every community in our country. It will also advance ethical conduct within the charitable community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to ask our visitors who our visitors are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pomegranat, Apple-Tree and BrambleThe pomegranate and Apple-Tree disputed as to which was the most beautiful. When their strife was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Pomegranat, Apple-Tree and BrambleThe pomegranate and Apple-Tree disputed as to which was the most beautiful. When their strife was at its height, a Bramble from the neighboring hedge lifted up its voice, and said in a boastful tone: Pray, my dear friends, in my presence at least cease from such vain disputings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness -- today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Tomorrow, fallen into our own mire, we are dejected, but not humbled; we grieve, but it is only the grief of pride at the seeing our perfection not to be such as we had vainly imagined. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sex to the last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16502]]></link><description><![CDATA[She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sex to the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29082]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later admitted to police that they did that because they are Muslims,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43898]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. [Lat., Aut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20916]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. [Lat., Aut potentior te, aut imbecillior laesit: si imbecillior, barce ille; si potentior, tibi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you a bromide? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you a bromide?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5966]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget all time: All seasons and their change, all please alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10101]]></link><description><![CDATA[With thee conversing I forget all time: All seasons and their change, all please alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14446]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66769]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Burmese leader welcomed our offer and explained to our president their seven-point political road map in detail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Burmese leader welcomed our offer and explained to our president their seven-point political road map in detail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad dislike those who are cheerful, and the cheerful dislike the melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't give someone all of your time if they're only gonna give you half of theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't give someone all of your time if they're only gonna give you half of theirs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really happy for him. That weight is so tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38931]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really happy for him. That weight is so tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The female of the species is more deadly than the male. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The female of the species is more deadly than the male.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with nostalgia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60306]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort and remembered with nostalgia]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32130]]></link><description><![CDATA[As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when thousands of Filipinos were political prisoners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And after the earthquake was a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40662]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point, we're actually running pretty smoothly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28676]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point, we're actually running pretty smoothly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thurston has some great shooters, but our defense just got in their face and shut them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thurston has some great shooters, but our defense just got in their face and shut them down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in school and didn't. We try to take things that sometimes people turn off of because they're introduced to them too early or for some other reason, and try to make them entertaining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If no one is going to the malls, they're not going to advertise as much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34320]]></link><description><![CDATA[If no one is going to the malls, they're not going to advertise as much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness means quiet nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness means quiet nerves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so rewarding when you hear the audience respond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so rewarding when you hear the audience respond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The purchase] is like a daydream of a used car salesman; we paid big bucks for lemons, ... We're buying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39735]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The purchase] is like a daydream of a used car salesman; we paid big bucks for lemons, ... We're buying lemons for Iraqi allies who have bull's-eyes on their backs. That's crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64724]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty ... is a realization that America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty ... is a realization that America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38664]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38664</guid></item></channel></rss>