<?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[A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46422]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11577]]></link><description><![CDATA[No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happywhere you ain't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21810]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happywhere you ain't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We climbed on the fire truck and I drove it, but it didn't move because I don't have my license. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29048]]></link><description><![CDATA[We climbed on the fire truck and I drove it, but it didn't move because I don't have my license.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family is the school of duties - founded on love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family is the school of duties - founded on love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lies that build are better than truths that destroy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lies that build are better than truths that destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now comes the mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now comes the mystery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People living deeply have no fear of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46045]]></link><description><![CDATA[People living deeply have no fear of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I draw most of my religious beliefs from Star Wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I draw most of my religious beliefs from Star Wars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end.  I was angry with my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath die end.  I was angry with my foe;   I told it not, my wrath did grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time. (after the team's co-captain, offensive guard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57533]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time. (after the team's co-captain, offensive guard Robert Pratt, pulled a hamstring running onto the field for the coin toss against St. Louis)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people not only lose the benefit, but are even the worse for their mortifications [i.e., sacrifices, abstensions], ... because they mistake the whole nature and worth of them: they practice them for their own sakes, as things good in themselves, they think them to be real parts of holiness, and so rest in them and look no further, but grow full of a self-esteem and self-admiration for their own progress in them. This makes them self-sufficient, morose, severe judges of all those that fall short of their mortifications. And thus their self-denials do only that for them which indulgences do for other people: they withstand and hinder the operation of God upon their souls, and instead of being really self-denials, they strengthen and keep up the kingdom of self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66104]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is very hard to shave an egge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is very hard to shave an egge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10276]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53194]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38980]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history of American broadcasting, ... Mr. Spitzer's office has collected a mountain of evidence on the potentially illegal promotion practices of not only Sony BMG, but also other major record companies, independent promoters and several of the largest radio station groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53813]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43209]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a king, that was to this   Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven     Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,      Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him       As if increase of appetite had grown        By what it fed on, and yet within a month--         Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--          A little month, or ere those shoes were old           With which she followed my poor father's body            Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--             O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason              Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,               My father's brother, but no more like my father                Than I to Hercules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can see this is a match made in heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37803]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can see this is a match made in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25024]]></link><description><![CDATA[In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's a man, But when you see a king, you see the work  Of many thousand men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's a man, But when you see a king, you see the work  Of many thousand men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not fear that the omnipotence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8563]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not fear that the omnipotence of God cannot recall all the particles that have been consumed by fire or by beast, or dissolved into dust and ashes, or decomposed into water, or evaporated into air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57319]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you picture my prophecy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you picture my prophecy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your children need your presence more than your presents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your children need your presence more than your presents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield,  Can take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield,  Can take in all, and verge enough for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48225]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7867]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there had anywhere appeared in space   Another place of refuge where to flee,  Our hearts had taken refuge from that place,   And not with Thee. For we against creation's bars had beat   Like prisoned eagles, through great worlds had sought Though but a foot of ground to plant our feet,   Where Thou wert not. And only when we found in earth and air,   In heaven or hell, that such might nowhere be That we could not flee from Thee anywhere,   We fled to Thee.  ... Richard Chevenix Trench  April 8, 2000 Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  It is the recognition of this divine necessity -- not to forgive, but to forgive in a way which shows that God is irreconcilable to evil, and can never treat it as other or less than it is -- it is the recognition of this divine necessity, or the failure to recognise it, which ultimately divides interpreters of Christianity into evangelical and non-evangelical, those who are true to the New Testament and those who cannot digest it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth  Whiles we enjoy it; but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth  Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,   Why, then we rack the value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sell not virtue to purchase wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42459]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very important moment in Gibraltar's history -- 300 years of being British, which is rather longer than it was ever Spanish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cock up your beaver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cock up your beaver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54816]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13758]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62622]]></link><description><![CDATA[For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62622</guid></item></channel></rss>