<?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[Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  Complain as little as possible of your wrongs, for, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  Complain as little as possible of your wrongs, for, as a general rule, you may be sure that complaining is sin: ... because self-love always magnifies our injuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.  Majestic silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3023]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.  Majestic silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never write a letter while you are angry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17123]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was going to go I think to the Kansas vs. Texas game, but I don't know. My head coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32710]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was going to go I think to the Kansas vs. Texas game, but I don't know. My head coach and AAU coach need to work that out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a Lenten series on prayer:  If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a Lenten series on prayer:  If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life devoted unto God, looking wholly unto Him in all our actions, and doing all things suitably to His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7055]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life devoted unto God, looking wholly unto Him in all our actions, and doing all things suitably to His glory, is so far from being dull and uncomfortable, that it creates new comforts in everything that we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a player that we've been looking at for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29252]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a player that we've been looking at for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All hospitals could achieve it, with a blueprint of how to go about it and the will to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40751]]></link><description><![CDATA[All hospitals could achieve it, with a blueprint of how to go about it and the will to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions never go backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions never go backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That guy, if he's not the first pick in the country, I'd be awfully surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34472]]></link><description><![CDATA[That guy, if he's not the first pick in the country, I'd be awfully surprised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersI don't do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39027]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersI don't do that anymore. But when you go on bender you never know what's going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just broke their backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36077]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just broke their backs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27875]]></link><description><![CDATA[No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elk existed at one time in 48 of the 50 states. A lot of the recovery is due to good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elk existed at one time in 48 of the 50 states. A lot of the recovery is due to good wildlife management practices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13663]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5750]]></link><description><![CDATA[With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary peoplevisualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary peoplevisualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18754]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrogant powers intend to make countries local and national economy bankrupt in an attempt to make more benefits from establishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrogant powers intend to make countries local and national economy bankrupt in an attempt to make more benefits from establishing a big market]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of few words are the best men. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of few words are the best men. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't promise twice what you can do at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't promise twice what you can do at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882  The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our thought; that is, that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9507]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more products expected this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40134]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more products expected this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51187]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26887]]></link><description><![CDATA[People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Anyone can lead a "prayer-life" -- that is, the sort of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Anyone can lead a "prayer-life" -- that is, the sort of reasonable devotional life to which each is called by God. This only involves making a suitable rule and making up your mind to keep it however boring this may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,  That neither by hir wordes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,  That neither by hir wordes ne his face   Biforn the fold, ne eek in her absence,    Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45714</guid></item></channel></rss>