<?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[I just know this is the best job I've ever had because I have had so many other jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just know this is the best job I've ever had because I have had so many other jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17964]]></link><description><![CDATA[When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5857]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 From subtle love of softening things, From easy choices, weakenings, (Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 From subtle love of softening things, From easy choices, weakenings, (Not thus are spirits fortified; Not this way went the Crucified;) From all that dims Thy Calvary, 0 Lamb of God, deliver me. Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire; Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[just cause? just cause because we're outlaws ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18305]]></link><description><![CDATA[just cause? just cause because we're outlaws]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of the Bay Area's 7 million residents places our local parks under intense pressure from residential development on their boundaries. Such development disrupts the natural rhythm of the forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58513]]></link><description><![CDATA[But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57494]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolutism tempered by assassination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolutism tempered by assassination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18731]]></link><description><![CDATA['Will you retire?''When they put me in the grave, I want to have a pen in my hand.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is theend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is theend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Jesus... did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  Jesus... did not finish all the urgent tasks in Palestine or all the things He would have liked to do, but He did finish the work which God gave Him to do. The only alternative to frustration is to be sure that we are doing what God wants. Nothing substitutes for knowing that this day, this hour, in this place, we are doing the will of the Father. Then and only then can we think of all the other unfinished tasks with equanimity, and leave them with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44264]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue That, his apparent open guilt omitted--  I mean, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20238]]></link><description><![CDATA[So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue That, his apparent open guilt omitted--  I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife--   He lived from all attainder of suspects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and gloss over  Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,   He understood b' implicit faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60977]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go away and come again each day, But thou shalt go away and ne'er return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go away and come again each day, But thou shalt go away and ne'er return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own. [Fr., Les abeilles pillotent deca dela les fleurs; mais elles en font aprez le miel, qui est tout leur; ce n'est plus thym, ny marjolaine: ainsi les pieces empruntees d'aultruy, il les transformera et confondra pour en faire un ouvrage tout sien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We received permission from the federal government to load April benefits early on March 27 since April 1 is on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We received permission from the federal government to load April benefits early on March 27 since April 1 is on a Saturday. This way, both the vendor and our local and state offices would be open and staffed to help people with problems during the week. We certainly apologize to anyone who has experience difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27743]]></link><description><![CDATA[In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there;  And 'twill be found, upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there;  And 'twill be found, upon examination,   The latter has the largest congregation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44966]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the winners decide what were war crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the winners decide what were war crimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suddenly we found the Sunnis pushed out of the Iraqi government. Because of that, we decided to go to the new election, we voted for the Sunni list.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3119]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of the human mind is slow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of the human mind is slow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly, he said, "That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18270]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Platonic love is love from the neck up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Platonic love is love from the neck up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42949]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach: Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;  One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;   (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49070]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is glory's small change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is glory's small change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . .  I like such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23105]]></link><description><![CDATA[That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . .  I like such ivy; bold to leap a height   'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves    As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too     (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's something the defense can hang their hat on. We're trying to establish our character and our identity. This was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28379]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's something the defense can hang their hat on. We're trying to establish our character and our identity. This was a great game, especially for our defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28379</guid></item></channel></rss>