<?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 fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. -Gandhi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance always remains on the hand that gives the rose. -Gandhi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only if, for some reason, the government falls, there is an election and the Liberals win, Mr. Graham presumably would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only if, for some reason, the government falls, there is an election and the Liberals win, Mr. Graham presumably would lead them into an election should that be held.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51462]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   But first I said, ... "Some people think it is not proper for a clergyman to dance. I mean to assert my freedom from any such law. If our Lord chose to represent, in His parable of the Prodigal Son, the joy in Heaven over a repentant sinner by the figure of "music and dancing', I will hearken to Him rather than to man, be they as good as they may." For I had long thought that the way to make indifferent things bad, was for good people not to do them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44255]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11329]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man. If God, then, puts or permits anything hard in our lives, be sure that the real peril, the real trouble, is that we shall lose if we flinch or rebel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is the soul's consciousness of its Divine relationship and exalted destiny. It is the recognition by man's higher nature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is the soul's consciousness of its Divine relationship and exalted destiny. It is the recognition by man's higher nature of sources of comfort and hope beyond anything that sense-knowledge discloses. It is the consciousness of a Divine Father toward Whom goes out all that is in affection and highest in moral aspiration; it is the premonition of a future life of which the best attainment here is but the twilight promise. In our day, the sudden and vast revelation of material wonders unsteadies and dims for the moment the spiritual sight; but the stars will shine clear again.  The truth-seeking spirit and the spirit of faith, instead of being opposed, are in the deepest harmony. The man whose faith is most genuine is most willing to have its assertions tested by the severest scrutiny. And the passion for truth has underlying it a profound conviction that what is real is best; that when we get to the heart of things we shall find there what we most need. Faith is false to itself when it dreads truth, and the desire for truth is prompted by an inner voice of faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With bated breath we offer wicked vows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50597]]></link><description><![CDATA[With bated breath we offer wicked vows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, there's quite a lot of concern about what's going on around the world. Greed has been replaced by fear. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, there's quite a lot of concern about what's going on around the world. Greed has been replaced by fear. There's not much rationality in a greed environment and there's not much rationality in a fear environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bob's devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bob's devotion to the craft of filmmaking and his wealth of head-and-heart knowledge about what we do and how we do it was a special gift to his fellow directors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18740]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can do not great things - only small things with great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2152]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can do not great things - only small things with great love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do this real moron thing, it's called thinking, and I'm not a very good Amercian because I like to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do this real moron thing, it's called thinking, and I'm not a very good Amercian because I like to form my own opionions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37790]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A closed mouth catches no flies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12458]]></link><description><![CDATA[A closed mouth catches no flies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,  I pray ye flog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58732]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,  I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,   It mends their morals, never mind the pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a tough guy for a lefty with the motion he has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30326]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a tough guy for a lefty with the motion he has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4958]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Buddhism we have relative truth and absolute truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is not so common.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fellow mixes blood with his colors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fellow mixes blood with his colors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our past research shows that adults are twice as likely to volunteer if they began participating when they were teens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our past research shows that adults are twice as likely to volunteer if they began participating when they were teens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put his shoulder to the wheel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put his shoulder to the wheel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guys didn't even know Wood River's record. I made sure to tell them that Wood River was a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guys didn't even know Wood River's record. I made sure to tell them that Wood River was a good team, a team that is going to come in here and give us a good fight. They beat us in this tournament every year. They seem to have our numbers, so we certainly should not have come in here looking past them for any reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What maintains one vice would bring up two children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60501]]></link><description><![CDATA[What maintains one vice would bring up two children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1185]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will lose control of our home affairs. We will lose control, I believe, eventually of our foreign policy and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42453]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will lose control of our home affairs. We will lose control, I believe, eventually of our foreign policy and our defense policy. I find these totally unacceptable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52345]]></link><description><![CDATA[What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582  It was no exceptional thing for Jesus to withdraw Himself "into the wilderness to pray." He was never for one moment of any day out of touch with God. He was speaking and listening to the Father all day long; and yet He, who was in such constant touch with God, felt the need, as well as the joy, of more prolonged and more quiet communion with Him... Most of the reasons that drive us to pray for strength and forgiveness could never have driven Him; and yet He needed prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64772]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45807</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[Money was hard to come by. Nobody had a nickel one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money was hard to come by. Nobody had a nickel one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And have you been to Borderland? Its country lies on either hand  Beyond the river I-forget.   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16487]]></link><description><![CDATA[And have you been to Borderland? Its country lies on either hand  Beyond the river I-forget.   One crosses by a single stone    So narrow one must pass alone,     And all about its waters fret--      The laughing river I-forget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27715</guid></item></channel></rss>