<?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[In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be  Than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59445]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be  Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining,   And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea;    With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn,     While I carol away idle sorrow,      And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn,       Look forward with hope for to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery and innocence are not akin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery and innocence are not akin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Carril, raise again thy voice! let me hear the song of Selma, which was sung in my halls of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56464]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Carril, raise again thy voice! let me hear the song of Selma, which was sung in my halls of joy, when Fingal, king of shields, was there, and glowed at the deeds of his fathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature knows best, and she says, roar! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature knows best, and she says, roar!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the dance speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the dance speaks to everyone. ... Otherwise it wouldn't work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46552]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with laughter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with laughter at so crazy a scheme, with the Church joining loudly in the merriment. Yet today, who laughs now? We ought to be the gladdest and the most exultant people in the world; for we have found the key to our difficulties, and it turns; have come on a solution of life's problems, and it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65648]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout  Of petulant capricious sects,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53473]]></link><description><![CDATA[So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout  Of petulant capricious sects,   That maggots of corrupted texts,    That first run all religion down,     And after every swarm its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60199]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54666]]></link><description><![CDATA[An idea is salvation by imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,  And marching single in an endless file, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,  And marching single in an endless file,   Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;    To each they offer gifts after his will,     Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;      I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp       Forgot my morning wishes, hastily        Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day         Turned and departed silent. I too late          Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw,  And birds sit brooding in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45340]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw,  And birds sit brooding in the snow,   And Marian's nose looks red and raw,    When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,     Then nightly sings the staring owl,      Tu-who;       Tu-whit, tu-who: a merry note,        While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62546]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very excited. I'm looking forward to doing all the different events and competing against other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36941]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very excited. I'm looking forward to doing all the different events and competing against other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to be wise after the event. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50997]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to be wise after the event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6082]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We handle about 5,000 cases a year, and the average is about 50 percent. That's up from 2003, when health ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We handle about 5,000 cases a year, and the average is about 50 percent. That's up from 2003, when health care was the main issue in about 45 or 46 percent of our cases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The resolution passed by the IAEA board of governors on 24 September makes clear the depth of international concern at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The resolution passed by the IAEA board of governors on 24 September makes clear the depth of international concern at Iran's decision. It remains to be seen how Iran will respond. Iran has an opportunity now to come into line with requests made by the IAEA board; we hope it would choose that constructive path.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to think continentally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to think continentally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord says, "As surely as I live, your children will be like jewels. You will be as proud of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord says, "As surely as I live, your children will be like jewels. You will be as proud of them as a bride is of her jewels."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61593]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not. [Ger., Der Mensch kann was er soll; und wenn er sagt er kann nicht, so will er nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56149]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kim is a great all-around athlete and a very versatile player. She will see playing time on the front line. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kim is a great all-around athlete and a very versatile player. She will see playing time on the front line. She is quick and agile, which contributes to her finesse as a player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be best served under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30184]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe the success of the continued evolution of the Paul Lee's Chinese Kitchen brand will be best served under Paul Fleming's stewardship. As a measure of our confidence in Paul and his team, we have retained the option to re-enter the joint venture in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll try anything that doesn't involve deep water, pain or Solaris 2.4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57113]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll try anything that doesn't involve deep water, pain or Solaris 2.4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think it's a good step for Afghanistan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40047]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think it's a good step for Afghanistan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say to be a leader, not a follower. I say that a follower of Jesus is the most notable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53773]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say to be a leader, not a follower. I say that a follower of Jesus is the most notable position one could hold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48987]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, therefore I'm single. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, therefore I'm single.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26121]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love rules his kingdome without a sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love rules his kingdome without a sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;  When the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24161]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;  When the air does laugh with our merry wit,   And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Michael Apted is a true leader -- in this guild, in the industry and in his craft. His passion, diligence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Michael Apted is a true leader -- in this guild, in the industry and in his craft. His passion, diligence and integrity serve as an inspiration and a model for all our members.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22145]]></link><description><![CDATA[All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. - Gnomologia, 1732.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There goes the swallow,-- Could we but follow!  Hasty swallow, stay,   Point us out the way;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58438]]></link><description><![CDATA[There goes the swallow,-- Could we but follow!  Hasty swallow, stay,   Point us out the way;    Look back swallow, turn back swallow, stop swallow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.  Not the bright stars ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58795]]></link><description><![CDATA[No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars.  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,   Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,    Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows     Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17454]]></link><description><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17454</guid></item></channel></rss>