<?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[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   The purpose of religion -- at any rate, the Christian religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   The purpose of religion -- at any rate, the Christian religion -- is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12650]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand  As is a man were author of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20731]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand  As is a man were author of himself   And knew no other kin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. [Lat., Beatus ille qui procul negotiis,  Ut prisca gens mortalium,   Paterna rura bobus exercet suis,    Solutus omni faenore.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you can back up negativity with is positive play. If you don't believe in yourself, who do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you can back up negativity with is positive play. If you don't believe in yourself, who do you believe in?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must not dare for shame to talk of mercy;   For your own reasons turn into your bosoms    As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24164]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or thepain of regret or disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22611]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or thepain of regret or disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a new Prince, new bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a new Prince, new bondage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66877]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27115]]></link><description><![CDATA[To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings about these long European stages. Unlike some of our rivals we had no problems with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41118]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings about these long European stages. Unlike some of our rivals we had no problems with the windscreen misting over when it rained in October. But I think the problems could arise tomorrow if it rains. If it is really muddy on the second stage it could be dangerous; if you slide or lose traction, that is where the problems begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   As for the miseries and sins he heard of daily in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   As for the miseries and sins he heard of daily in the world, he was so far from wondering at them that, on the contrary, he was surprised that there were not more, considering the malice sinners were capable of... For his part, he prayed for them: but, knowing that God could remedy the mischiefs they did, when He pleased, he gave himself no further trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My job is to stop the run. Our goal, believe it or not, was to hold (Mon Williams) to zero ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39039]]></link><description><![CDATA[My job is to stop the run. Our goal, believe it or not, was to hold (Mon Williams) to zero or negative yards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23375]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us will smart for it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us will smart for it. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22212]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody expects it to take real long, but it takes a while to build a program anywhere. In addition, we expanded this league. The good news is we're getting better. The bad news is, so is everybody else in this league. We've lost an awful lot of close games, but we're very, very close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63300]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing impossible to him who will try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[worked together as effectively as the terrorists do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40149]]></link><description><![CDATA[worked together as effectively as the terrorists do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have started enriching uranium to the 3.5 percent level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's ever studied them in the Pacific states before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39742]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's ever studied them in the Pacific states before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17877]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business anywhere else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset's golden and crimson ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset's golden and crimson dyes: I look and a great joy clutches my throat!  Plateau of roofs by canyons crossed: windows by thousands fire-furled--   O gazing, how the heart is lost in the Deepest City in the World.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Some participants were disappointed.] I was expecting a bigger celebration, ... It doesn't fit the size of the victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28315]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Some participants were disappointed.] I was expecting a bigger celebration, ... It doesn't fit the size of the victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30231]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When boasting ends, there dignity begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12283]]></link><description><![CDATA[When boasting ends, there dignity begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42943]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61944]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50874]]></link><description><![CDATA[In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a looking glass. It gives back to everyman a true reflection of his own thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a looking glass. It gives back to everyman a true reflection of his own thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51876]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  No one who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  No one who is fit to live need fear to die. Poor, timorous, faithless souls that we are! How we shall smile at our vain alarms, when the worst has happened! To us here, death is the most terrible word we know. But when we have tasted its reality, it will mean to us birth, deliverance, a new creation of ourselves. It will be what health is to the sick man. It will be what home is to the exile. It will be what the loved one given back is to the bereaved. As we draw near to it, a great solemn gladness should fill our hearts. It is God's great morning lighting up the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2637]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63531]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63531</guid></item></channel></rss>