<?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[We benefit as a growing sport being in a growing region. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41675]]></link><description><![CDATA[We benefit as a growing sport being in a growing region.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would steal anything I could so we could survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42270]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would steal anything I could so we could survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never let schooling interfere with my education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never let schooling interfere with my education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have enjoyed my time in St. Louis and wish the organization the best of luck in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have enjoyed my time in St. Louis and wish the organization the best of luck in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration . . . because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know which one of us hates to lose more. I can't stand it when you have to go over there and shake (the other team's) hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's finger touched him, and he slept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11405]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's finger touched him, and he slept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  The Gospels do not explain the Resurrection -- the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945  The Gospels do not explain the Resurrection -- the Resurrection explains the Gospels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always frustrating when you get good looks and the ball doesn't go in the hole. That's what keeps you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always frustrating when you get good looks and the ball doesn't go in the hole. That's what keeps you humble in this game. If you made everything, this would be an easy game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. [Lat., Omitte mirari beatae  Fumum et opes strepitumque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome. [Lat., Omitte mirari beatae  Fumum et opes strepitumque Romae.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me  Water with berries in't; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3404]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me  Water with berries in't; and teach me how   To name the bigger light, and how the less,    That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee     And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle,      The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55916]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every madman considers everyone else a madman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every madman considers everyone else a madman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The popularity of these cards has surged in the last year or two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32293]]></link><description><![CDATA[The popularity of these cards has surged in the last year or two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, that pitch got away from me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of success is showing up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of success is showing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19920]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done this? we have no enemies.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The budget surplus is real, not imagined, and it means that the tax is no longer needed, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The budget surplus is real, not imagined, and it means that the tax is no longer needed,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10503]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins  The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,   Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principles that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a positive cash flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a positive cash flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andy didn't have his best stuff. Certainly the Pirates hitters battled with every single pitch. Whether it was to foul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Andy didn't have his best stuff. Certainly the Pirates hitters battled with every single pitch. Whether it was to foul it off or take a ball, nothing came easy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is spiritualized imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is spiritualized imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49416]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60455]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54078]]></link><description><![CDATA[By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19079]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known him [Micawber] come home to supper with a flood of tears, and a declaration that nothing was now left but a jail; and go to bed making a calculation of the expense of putting bow-windows to the house, "in case anything turned up," which was his favorite expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5952]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31021]]></link><description><![CDATA[If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5097]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19974]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape, self-named Homo Sapiens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring,   'Tis time for me to go!    Northward o'er the icy rocks,     Northward o'er the sea,      My daughter comes with sunny locks:       This land's too warm for me!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your heart's desires be with you! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your heart's desires be with you! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25023]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25023</guid></item></channel></rss>