<?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[Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37092]]></link><description><![CDATA[To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  To love another as oneself is only the halfway house to Heaven, though it seems as far as it was prudent to bid man go. The "greater love than this" of which our Lord speaks, though He does not command it, is to give oneself for one's friends. And when one does this, or is ready to do this, prayer even for "us" seems too selfish -- and it is unnecessary, for we then possess all that God Himself can give us. The easy renunciation of self for the Beloved becomes the very breath of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's October 2nd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's October 2nd, the day I was diagnosed, ... the day we all sort of look to and mark these milestones by one year, two year, five year, 10 year. Hopefully, I have a 50 year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle. (Albany:) O Goneril,  You are not worth the dust which the rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62337]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Goneril:) I have been worth the whistle. (Albany:) O Goneril,  You are not worth the dust which the rude wind   Blows in your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I figured he took that extended lead and as I was going to throw, I saw him delaying and tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I figured he took that extended lead and as I was going to throw, I saw him delaying and tried to hold up and threw the ball away and felt like just the biggest idiot alive at that point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have at least four to five different potato dishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38155]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have at least four to five different potato dishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,  Forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,  Forget not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A witty saying proves nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65792]]></link><description><![CDATA[A witty saying proves nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do it soon enough, if that we do be well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50045]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth hath a quiet breast. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth hath a quiet breast. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58474]]></link><description><![CDATA[To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to move to a countywide system. I have real concerns about how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to move to a countywide system. I have real concerns about how frequently the revenues would be distributed and what sort of accountability there would be in getting proper distribution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a business decision. We just felt this was the right time for me to come in. There's no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38377]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a business decision. We just felt this was the right time for me to come in. There's no love lost, there's no harm. I'm coming in with an open mind and ready to play, no grudges at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to be the first team in the state of North Carolina to win a national championship in football. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31874]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to be the first team in the state of North Carolina to win a national championship in football. People say I must be nuts. Well, maybe I am. ... We all have goals. Why wouldn't they be the highest?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this moment in time, the chances of any agreement are extremely small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28948]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this moment in time, the chances of any agreement are extremely small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41122]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy hada life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful when!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never will desert Mr. Micawber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never will desert Mr. Micawber.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat  That flames ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58254]]></link><description><![CDATA[O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat  That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer,   Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft    Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld     With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got 140 in the clean and jerk event, but they said it wasn't any good because I didn't lock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got 140 in the clean and jerk event, but they said it wasn't any good because I didn't lock my arms out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? And why does thy nose look so blue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? And why does thy nose look so blue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1195]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like a house. Eventually things start wearing out. There's always something you can be doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33863]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like a house. Eventually things start wearing out. There's always something you can be doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66675]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    Wherever God's Word may be preached, His precepts remain a letter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    Wherever God's Word may be preached, His precepts remain a letter and dead words so long as they are not received by men with a pure heart; only where they pierce to the soul do they become, so to speak, changed into Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Builders are using every nook and cranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Builders are using every nook and cranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do that all the time, and it's not just something I'm making up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38291]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do that all the time, and it's not just something I'm making up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26939]]></link><description><![CDATA[By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15640]]></link><description><![CDATA[FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows where the skeletons are in the closets of (WTO) member states better than Pascal Lamy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows where the skeletons are in the closets of (WTO) member states better than Pascal Lamy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31406]]></link><description><![CDATA[15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31406</guid></item></channel></rss>