<?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[The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something has gone wrong with taking this young man out of the Dominican Republic. I'm frustrated, I'm angry, I'm sad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something has gone wrong with taking this young man out of the Dominican Republic. I'm frustrated, I'm angry, I'm sad. Somehow, I feel partly responsible, you know?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No answer is also an answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11605]]></link><description><![CDATA[No answer is also an answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We agreed in Cairo on a collective truce and the retaliation, therefore, should be collective, too, because this is an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41288]]></link><description><![CDATA[We agreed in Cairo on a collective truce and the retaliation, therefore, should be collective, too, because this is an Israeli carnage, the result of which must be shared by all parties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15105]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23360]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In 6 weeks, the puppy will stop whining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just cash in on the fact that I'm good looking, and I've got a nice figure and girls like me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no bad feelings from him and no bad feelings from me. He said 'I'm sorry. It's just one of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33150]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no bad feelings from him and no bad feelings from me. He said 'I'm sorry. It's just one of those deals.' I said I understand. We've been good friends for a lot of years. I think he's a quality individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54170]]></link><description><![CDATA[No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12737]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Trust' is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63043]]></link><description><![CDATA['Trust' is important. But once a promise is broken 'sorry' means nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31162]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just gave up on acting for a couple of years until Good Will Hunting came around, and since it was Gus, it was hard to say no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8545]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We are afraid of the jeer about "pie in the sky", and of being told that we are trying to "escape" from the duty of making a happy world here and now, into dreams of a better world elsewhere. But either there is "pie in the sky" or there is not. If there is not, then Christianity is false, for this doctrine is woven into its whole fabric. If there is, then this doctrine, like any other, must be faced, whether it is useful at political meetings or no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The National Assembly may prod everyone to do things differently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The National Assembly may prod everyone to do things differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that a lot of gay people feel like if you're openly gay, by doing so you're sacrificing being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that a lot of gay people feel like if you're openly gay, by doing so you're sacrificing being any kind of public figure on Howard's campus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4829]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jewelled coryphee With quivering wings like shielding gauze outspread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jewelled coryphee With quivering wings like shielding gauze outspread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know when you’re in a movie and you don’t know anybody else in the theater and the most beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13731]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know when you’re in a movie and you don’t know anybody else in the theater and the most beautiful thing happens on the screen? Everybody there feels this overwhelming sense of whatever that emotion is? You’re surrounded by strangers but you’re all feeling the same thing. The feeling is intensified because it’s being shared by three hundred people all at the same instant. That’s what we try to do, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52733]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10764]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark  Of the unfathomed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark  Of the unfathomed centre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goalkeeper thought Tony was going to shoot, and he stayed on his line. He passed instead, which gave me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39072]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goalkeeper thought Tony was going to shoot, and he stayed on his line. He passed instead, which gave me a pretty easy shot. I got it in, which was huge for us. We really needed to win this game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be spaces in your togetherness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be spaces in your togetherness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  It was the experience of the disciples who knew Jesus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170  It was the experience of the disciples who knew Jesus both before and after the Resurrection, and the conviction which they communicated to others, that laid the foundation of faith. This faith, once given, proved to be -- like the Person who gave rise to it -- essentially self-authenticating. And ever since, the Church has looked to the Cross, a symbol of weakness, as its unique source of power in preaching the Gospel, its authority both to teach and to preach has been of this kind. No amount of liaison between the Church and the source of any other authority, political or moral, must be allowed to obscure the simplicity -- and the mystery -- of the authority of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The downfall of the Dracula of the century is a day of happiness for every Palestinian and every Muslim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The downfall of the Dracula of the century is a day of happiness for every Palestinian and every Muslim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17516]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and it is us. - "Pogo comic strip". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44230]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have met the enemy and it is us. - "Pogo comic strip".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good-bye--my paper's out so nearly, I've only room for, Yours sincerely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good-bye--my paper's out so nearly, I've only room for, Yours sincerely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anti-terrorism laws are going to create a legal nightmare for the Government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anti-terrorism laws are going to create a legal nightmare for the Government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness,  And oftentimes excusing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10463]]></link><description><![CDATA[When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness,  And oftentimes excusing of a fault   Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,    As patches set upon a little breach     Discredit more in hiding of the fault      Than did the fault before it was so patched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun,  Singing in soothing tones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun,  Singing in soothing tones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55160]]></link><description><![CDATA[If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They come out with a skill set and a belief that nobody but themselves will control their careers, ... Baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31094]]></link><description><![CDATA[They come out with a skill set and a belief that nobody but themselves will control their careers, ... Baby boomers took a very different approach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it 's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it\'s indifference. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is not hate, it 's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it\'s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it 's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it\'s indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a phoenix. His faith in Iraq and in himself has been incredible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34955]]></link><description><![CDATA[a phoenix. His faith in Iraq and in himself has been incredible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64705]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14732]]></link><description><![CDATA[As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32006]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you think of the Caribbean today, you think of clear blue warm water, ... Probably about 12 million years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40529]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you think of the Caribbean today, you think of clear blue warm water, ... Probably about 12 million years ago, it was more like the eastern Pacific; it was a bit cooler. There was greater seasonal change in temperatures, and there were more nutrients around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40529</guid></item></channel></rss>