<?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[Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23393]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34749]]></link><description><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,  When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,   Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59973]]></link><description><![CDATA[O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,  When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,   Since that the truest issue of thy throne    By his own interdiction stands accursed     And does blaspheme his breed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is still a pretty benign report overall and broadly in line with Bank of England expectations contained in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36609]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is still a pretty benign report overall and broadly in line with Bank of England expectations contained in the February Inflation Report.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding-coat;  White are his shoulders and white his crest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Robert of Lincoln is gayly drest, Wearing a bright black wedding-coat;  White are his shoulders and white his crest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65786]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never have anything you don't respect, including lot's of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63219]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never have anything you don't respect, including lot's of money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse;  Fear, for their scourge, means villains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53795]]></link><description><![CDATA[High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse;  Fear, for their scourge, means villains have,   Thou art the torturer of the brave!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe the best social program is a job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65994]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe the best social program is a job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental inharmony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then we started going once a month to Pennsylvania and would practice reading commercials and on the runway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then we started going once a month to Pennsylvania and would practice reading commercials and on the runway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just put my feet in the air and move them around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just put my feet in the air and move them around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14248]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prior years, saddled with heavy incentives and a sagging economy, industry executives pushed profitability out as far as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30625]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prior years, saddled with heavy incentives and a sagging economy, industry executives pushed profitability out as far as they could. Our survey this year has definitely found improved profit levels emerging sooner rather than later, and this is very encouraging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19195]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57079]]></link><description><![CDATA[...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign workers' remittances boosted local manufacturers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foreign workers' remittances boosted local manufacturers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complain to one who can help you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complain to one who can help you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lots of large commercial vendors are getting into this market, and they have not shown dedication to the standards-based approach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lots of large commercial vendors are getting into this market, and they have not shown dedication to the standards-based approach or to free access to the essential technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sop to Cerebus. If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sop to Cerebus. If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fascists cannot argue, so they kill ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fascists cannot argue, so they kill]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14945]]></link><description><![CDATA[A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is my utopia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is my utopia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gay is not one of those writers who vomits on a page, then goes back and rewrites. He never moves on to a next sentence until he's perfectly happy with one he's written before. So he'll struggle with the opening paragraph of a chapter for weeks. This is laborious, not to mention painful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24624]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds  Walking in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43071]]></link><description><![CDATA[How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds  Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61110]]></link><description><![CDATA[If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue. [Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ita dicam) praestringit oculos, nec habet ullum cum virtute commercium.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's a thorn that has stuck in our sides for year. We went from being one of the best to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32849]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's a thorn that has stuck in our sides for year. We went from being one of the best to the bottom 10 in the nation last year. I have let it be known from Day 1 in practice that we will not forget that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43627]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42543]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he was talking, he was lying and if he wasn't lying, he was stealing. He was just a weird and lonely guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't clear on-at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33239]]></link><description><![CDATA[People say we have all got to join Europe for reasons which even the economists themselves aren't clear on-at the same time we're saying, well yes of course Scotland has got to be independent. And why don't we make Wales independent too? And the north of England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57223]]></link><description><![CDATA[She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting at her merry wheel), she sings a defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune . . . and fears no manner of ill because she means none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Jackson has an insatiable appetite for money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michael Jackson has an insatiable appetite for money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35927</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[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461  If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at the beginning, then afterwards we should be able to do all things with ease and joy. It is a hard thing to break through a habit, and a yet harder thing to go contrary to our own will. Yet, if thou overcome not slight and easy obstacles, how wilt thou overcome greater ones? Withstand thy will at the beginning, and unlearn an evil habit, lest it lead thee little by little into worse difficulties. Oh, if thou knewest what peace to thyself thy holy life should bring, ... and what joy to others, methinketh thou wouldst be more zealous for spiritual profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48627]]></link><description><![CDATA[For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48627</guid></item></channel></rss>