<?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[The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53196]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of church, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33782]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of church,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers your scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2242]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61086]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Father and His Two DaughtersA man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Father and His Two DaughtersA man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to a tile-maker. After a time he went to the daughter who had married the gardener, and inquired how she was and how all things went with her. She said, All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish, that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be well watered. Not long after, he went to the daughter who had married the tilemaker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied, I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be dried. He said to her, If your sister wishes for rain, and you for dry weather, with which of the two am I to join my wishes?'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to approach each game the same, just with a blue-collar mentality, and sometimes I get into foul trouble. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to approach each game the same, just with a blue-collar mentality, and sometimes I get into foul trouble. Sometimes I don't [get into foul trouble], and tonight I didn't, and I was able to stay on the floor. I was able to do what I do, which is grab boards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22837]]></link><description><![CDATA[But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes someone has to hurt you deep enough to make you realize how better your life is without them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes someone has to hurt you deep enough to make you realize how better your life is without them in it...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blackout is similar to any side effect of drinking too much such as vomiting or abnormal behavior. The implications ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31723]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blackout is similar to any side effect of drinking too much such as vomiting or abnormal behavior. The implications beyond that are people don't know what they did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get this shot maybe once in a lifetime. You don't want to let this opportunity to pass you by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31506]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get this shot maybe once in a lifetime. You don't want to let this opportunity to pass you by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13282]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56220]]></link><description><![CDATA[But from the hoop's bewitching round, He very shoe has power to wound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47436]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5954]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4071]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness…]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, no hablo ingles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51988]]></link><description><![CDATA[After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, no hablo ingles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself look stupid on occasion, because if you don't people will start to think you're smart. Then they'll start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself look stupid on occasion, because if you don't people will start to think you're smart. Then they'll start to expect things from you, and it all goes downhill from there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nearly 100% of the ministry's procurement budget that has gone [missing], ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28942]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nearly 100% of the ministry's procurement budget that has gone [missing],]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1250]]></link><description><![CDATA[While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30325]]></link><description><![CDATA[You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5812]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has a passion for teaching and for children, a creative mind and limitless energy. When you put that together, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31131]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has a passion for teaching and for children, a creative mind and limitless energy. When you put that together, you have something special.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, without experiencing the joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Conob Indians of northern Guatemala... describe love as "my soul dies." Love is such that, without experiencing the joy of union with the object of our love, there is a real sense in which "the soul dies." A man who loves God according to the Conob idiom would say "my soul dies for God." This not only describes the powerful emotion felt by the one who loves, but it should imply a related truth -- namely, that in true love there is no room for self. The man who loves God must die to self. True love is, of all emotions, the most unselfish, for it does not look out for self but for others. False love seeks to possess; true love seeks to be possessed. False love leads to cancerous jealousy; true love leads to a life-giving ministry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are enormously long lags from a change in exchange rates to impact on production and employment. ...The dollar has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37047]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are enormously long lags from a change in exchange rates to impact on production and employment. ...The dollar has already weakened and frankly this kind of move isn't going to matter very much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is why we will end the hunger strike, but it should not be forgotten that it was a warning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28436]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is why we will end the hunger strike, but it should not be forgotten that it was a warning to those who do not abide by law and justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36987]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright,  And the stars they glisten, glisten,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44529]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright,  And the stars they glisten, glisten,   Seeming with bright eyes to listen-    For what listen they?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't listen to a lot of music, and wouldn't necessarily sit down and put on the radio. If I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37989]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't listen to a lot of music, and wouldn't necessarily sit down and put on the radio. If I did, I'd probably put on a bit of classical stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19283]]></link><description><![CDATA[People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44851]]></link><description><![CDATA[It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right. And he goes about seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right. And he goes about seeing that things turn out that way -- with, of course, a lot of people suffering along the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the division race will come down to the final week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the division race will come down to the final week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to win now, because this one didn't help. I was really happy with her effort on the mound. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to win now, because this one didn't help. I was really happy with her effort on the mound. The girls tried to battle back, but it was a real bummer of a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51122]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!  Which were so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!  Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit,   As since, she will vouchsafe no other wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60791]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred!  Than spotted livers in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred!  Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36286</guid></item></channel></rss>