<?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[Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, butyour dream will not. Responsibilities need not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, butyour dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need notobscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64915]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1156]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andy didn't have his best stuff. Certainly the Pirates hitters battled with every single pitch. Whether it was to foul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Andy didn't have his best stuff. Certainly the Pirates hitters battled with every single pitch. Whether it was to foul it off or take a ball, nothing came easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66820]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. [Fr., L'on ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54216]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch. [Fr., L'on ne saurait mieux faire voir que le magnifique et le ridicule sont si voisins qu'ils se touchent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's our most pop album since our first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41402]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's our most pop album since our first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, andevermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, andevermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, bringsforth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He thinks in secret and it comes topass; Environment is but his looking-glass. As A Man Thinketh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Snuffling through his nose some stale joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64238]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51311]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heart unspotted is not easily daunted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a balance in the house. It's not like 24-7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a balance in the house. It's not like 24-7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like Chocolate. The tenth lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like Chocolate. The tenth lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/990]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though good faith should be banished from the rest of the world, it should be found in the mouths of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though good faith should be banished from the rest of the world, it should be found in the mouths of kings. [Fr., Si la bonne foi etait bannie du reste du monde, il faudrait qu'on la trouvat dans la bouche des rois.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away  I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3905]]></link><description><![CDATA[For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away  I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave,   I'le seek him in your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft as some song divine, thy story flows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft as some song divine, thy story flows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51576]]></link><description><![CDATA[A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51968]]></link><description><![CDATA[For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56871]]></link><description><![CDATA[To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44245</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[To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22592]]></link><description><![CDATA[To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better late than never. [Lat., Potius sero quam nunquam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better late than never. [Lat., Potius sero quam nunquam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time is always right to do what is right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time is always right to do what is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12993]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is horrible. Because you have to get here two hours early just to find a place to park. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42368]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is horrible. Because you have to get here two hours early just to find a place to park.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westminster Abbey, or Victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westminster Abbey, or Victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some relate ... that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some relate ... that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What most people like is the three homemade soups every day. Chicken corn chowder, we can barely keep up with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38154]]></link><description><![CDATA[What most people like is the three homemade soups every day. Chicken corn chowder, we can barely keep up with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20768]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  We may suffer the sins of our brother; we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to judge. This is a mercy for the Christian; for when does sin ever occur in the community that he must not examine and blame himself for his own unfaithfulness in prayer and intercession, his lack of brotherly service, of fraternal reproof and encouragement -- indeed, for his own personal sin and spiritual laxity, by which he has done injury to himself, the fellowship, and the brethren? Since every sin of a member burdens and indicts the whole community, the congregation rejoices, in the midst of all the pain and the burden that the brother's sin inflicts, that it has the privilege of bearing and forgiving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The majority of investors would like to keep the current tenant, and if someone wants to stay, we will try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The majority of investors would like to keep the current tenant, and if someone wants to stay, we will try to match them up with an investor. The ones that really want to stay express an interest and come talk to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43722]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence,  So sweet is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9925]]></link><description><![CDATA[When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence,  So sweet is zealous contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will  To take the indisposed and sickly fit  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will  To take the indisposed and sickly fit   For the sound man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12499</guid></item></channel></rss>