<?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[If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41533]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang  Shoots through the conscious heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amid the roses, fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest; a quick-returning pang  Shoots through the conscious heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6242]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earned with the sweat of my brows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earned with the sweat of my brows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth  The solution lies in a complete realisation of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth  The solution lies in a complete realisation of what we mean by asserting that God is Almighty. The two ideas of Free-will and Divine Sovereignty can not be reconciled in our own minds, but that does not prevent them from being reconciled in God's mind. We measure Him by our own intellectual standard if we think otherwise. And so our solution of the problem of Free-will and of the problems of history and of individual salvation must finally lie in the full acceptance and realisation of what is implied by the infinity and the omniscience of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exactly, they just get some bands and say, This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exactly, they just get some bands and say, This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every event is a judgment of God. [Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23546]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every event is a judgment of God. [Ger., Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurheil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1926]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress is The law of life, man is not  Man as yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress is The law of life, man is not  Man as yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be very expensive. We still have a lot of fundraising to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be very expensive. We still have a lot of fundraising to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56819]]></link><description><![CDATA[While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2108]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12069]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has been made by fools that men should live in it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has been made by fools that men should live in it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance is a nickname for Providence. [Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55421]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Law is not the same at morning and at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Law is not the same at morning and at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really proud of the way we played today. These were the toughest conditions we've dealt with all year, yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really proud of the way we played today. These were the toughest conditions we've dealt with all year, yet we scored our best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. -A. A. Milne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toughness played a much bigger role on those teams. We had eight legitimate fighters. I helped with that toughness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Toughness played a much bigger role on those teams. We had eight legitimate fighters. I helped with that toughness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiar acts are beautiful through love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiar acts are beautiful through love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[until the accused are in custody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41097]]></link><description><![CDATA[until the accused are in custody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up until now, we've done little but complain. Until now, we've stood by, watching native habitat disappear, and with it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up until now, we've done little but complain. Until now, we've stood by, watching native habitat disappear, and with it wildlife of all types. Instead of doing something, we've come to accept our present situation as inevitable and tolerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51151]]></link><description><![CDATA[He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to have completed the regulatory approval process in just 10 months from the date the transaction was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35989]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to have completed the regulatory approval process in just 10 months from the date the transaction was announced May 24, 2005. We appreciate the thorough and efficient review of the transaction by regulatory officials and parties to the proceedings in each state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cost of living is dying, everybody pays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cost of living is dying, everybody pays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1762]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is clear, though, that the Genesis experience bolsters the previous conclusion that an MSR entry vehicle must be designed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41705]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is clear, though, that the Genesis experience bolsters the previous conclusion that an MSR entry vehicle must be designed to maintain containment of the samples in the event that a parachute or any other entry, descent, and landing deployment or actuation fails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good effort by everyone. We're not the best team in the league, obviously, but we hung pretty good. They just hung longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30667</guid></item></channel></rss>