<?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[Morale is faith in the man at the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morale is faith in the man at the top.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1940]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--  And Winter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62094]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--  And Winter, slumbering in the open air,   Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!    And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,     Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25413]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to offend a New Yorker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43116]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very ancient and fish-like smell. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16944]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crack-brained bobolink courts his crazy mate, Poised on a bulrush tipsy with his weight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crack-brained bobolink courts his crazy mate, Poised on a bulrush tipsy with his weight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may passively be cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may passively be cast down by God's terrors, and yet not willingly throw himself down as he ought at God's footstool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't over till it's over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't over till it's over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12504]]></link><description><![CDATA[We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44088]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are, when you don't come home at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that number one, we owe it to our taxpayers to explore what our lands are worth and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30907]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that number one, we owe it to our taxpayers to explore what our lands are worth and what we want to do. This in no way obligates us to accept offers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13249]]></link><description><![CDATA["Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, so they have internet on computers now! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, so they have internet on computers now!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. -King Henry IV. Part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55876]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44291]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the wife of a state Supreme Court justice in Arkansas put it, "My husband has been a Methodist all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6440]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the wife of a state Supreme Court justice in Arkansas put it, "My husband has been a Methodist all his life, but if it comes to choosing between being a Methodist and an American, he'll be an American every time." But this was not the issue, quite. In this case the choice was between being a good Methodist and a good American, and being a tribal religionist. But the theological problem of churches without discipline comes into stark outline in the quotation. Inadequately trained for membership, admitted without preparatory training, without the proper instruments of voluntary discipline, many members have never had the discontinuity between life in Christ and life in the world brought home to them. Here the ordinary members are less at fault than the leadership of the churches, who -- though sworn to uphold the form of sound words and doctrine -- neglect catechetical instruction and concentrate solely on the acquisition of more new members at any price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14524]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20822]]></link><description><![CDATA[A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been coaching Aynsley in all sports for years and she's always been a clutch performer. She's unorthodox in her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been coaching Aynsley in all sports for years and she's always been a clutch performer. She's unorthodox in her form sometimes, but she always gets the job done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45035]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21363]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick, while there is life there is hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tough match because Ruben is a clay-court player, ... But I think I was playing very well. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tough match because Ruben is a clay-court player, ... But I think I was playing very well. I was doing the things I needed to do, playing from the back but also looking to come in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were very wrong in October. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were very wrong in October.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closest to being in control we will ever be is in that moment that we realize we're not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closest to being in control we will ever be is in that moment that we realize we're not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just signed a commitment for peaceful settlement, ... We aim to end violence and to begin a new life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36230]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just signed a commitment for peaceful settlement, ... We aim to end violence and to begin a new life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,\" I say. \"Controlling you is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,\" I say. \"Controlling you is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose your friends by their character and your socks by theircolor. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose your friends by their character and your socks by theircolor. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, andchoosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52008]]></link><description><![CDATA[...originality consists of the achievement of new combinations, and not of the creation of something out of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their secrets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By-and-by has no end. [Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59297]]></link><description><![CDATA[By-and-by has no end. [Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59297</guid></item></channel></rss>