<?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[There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27401]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election -- a statesman, of the next generation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still feel the Jets should be in Queens. She's getting a lot of enthusiasm from people on the street ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32444]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still feel the Jets should be in Queens. She's getting a lot of enthusiasm from people on the street to bring the Jets back ... It just seems to be more and more serious as time goes by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are the silent language of grief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are the silent language of grief]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still  That others touch, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still  That others touch, and often touching will   Wear gold; and no man that hath a name,    By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to someone who doesn't know how to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord of all being is far more than the Lord of all beings. He is the Lord of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord of all being is far more than the Lord of all beings. He is the Lord of all actual existence. He is the Lord of all kinds of beings--spiritual being, natural being, physical being. Therefore, when we rightly worship Him we encompass all being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself. -Adolph Zukor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1873]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself. -Adolph Zukor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers will look at the OS level, as well as at mobile Web-browsing applications, in an effort to take mobile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Researchers will look at the OS level, as well as at mobile Web-browsing applications, in an effort to take mobile technology to the next level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18845]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23010]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46625]]></link><description><![CDATA[She knows as well as anyone that pity, having played, soon tires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody thought a skateboarder could get endorsement deals. There is a product for every subculture. Mountain Dew sells to extreme ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody thought a skateboarder could get endorsement deals. There is a product for every subculture. Mountain Dew sells to extreme athletes. Deodorant is being sold to urban markets with rappers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17347]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52053]]></link><description><![CDATA[When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24798]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, is the bearing of the cross. Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39415]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry withme, for every man is amirror. We see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry withme, for every man is amirror. We see only ourselves reflected inthose around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of ourown. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within usall. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world willchange.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65973]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55765]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At one point I just ran and covered my son and that's when the room came down on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33336]]></link><description><![CDATA[At one point I just ran and covered my son and that's when the room came down on us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The statute itself is so overly restrictive, he's being denied due process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The statute itself is so overly restrictive, he's being denied due process.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20869]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--  Days of absence, I am weary;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--  Days of absence, I am weary;   She I love is far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the biggest drivers in the male marketplace now in cosmetic surgery is men who are 40-plus who use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42563]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the biggest drivers in the male marketplace now in cosmetic surgery is men who are 40-plus who use this as a tool to look healthy, to look young, to look vibrant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4091]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25719]]></link><description><![CDATA[If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From a team standpoint, it's a rebuilding year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41766]]></link><description><![CDATA[From a team standpoint, it's a rebuilding year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22317]]></link><description><![CDATA[If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From what we've been seeing tonight, we'll definitely do it again. It's definitely a keeper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33229]]></link><description><![CDATA[From what we've been seeing tonight, we'll definitely do it again. It's definitely a keeper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I charged a round in the chamber, he got down real fast, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35085]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I charged a round in the chamber, he got down real fast,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear always springs from ignorance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way,  He greedily sucks in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way,  He greedily sucks in the twining bait,   And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat.    Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line!     How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  The generality of nominal Christians... are almost entirely taken up with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Wilberforce, Social Reformer, 1833  The generality of nominal Christians... are almost entirely taken up with the concerns of the present world. They know indeed that they are mortal, but they do not feel it. The truth rests in their understandings, and cannot gain admission into their hearts. This speculative persuasion is altogether different from that strong practical impression of the infinite importance of eternal things, which, attended with a proportionate sense of the shortness and uncertainty of all below, while it prompts to activity from a conviction that the night cometh when no man can work, produces a certain firmness of texture, which hardens us against the buffetings of fortune, and prevents our being very deeply penetrated by the cares and interests, the good or evil, of this transitory state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21026]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a skin without and a skin within, A covering skin and a lining skin,  But the skin within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44614]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a skin without and a skin within, A covering skin and a lining skin,  But the skin within is the skin without   Doubled and carried complete throughout.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44614</guid></item></channel></rss>