<?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[Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing and wisdom another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the parent of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the parent of faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold is a vain and foolish fancy. [Fr., L'or est une chimere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19894]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "Savior of 'is country" when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27472]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "Savior of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he shall die Take him and cut him in little stars And he will make the face of heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11416]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he shall die Take him and cut him in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  All love in general hath an assimilating efficacy; it casts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915  All love in general hath an assimilating efficacy; it casts the mind into the mould of the thing beloved... Every approach unto God by ardent love and delight is transfiguring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave,  And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed   The lofty vault, to gather and roll back    The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood,     Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down      And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks       And supplication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, what fools these mortals be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, what fools these mortals be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then the nun-like twilight came, violent vestured and still, And the night's first star outshone afar on the eve of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then the nun-like twilight came, violent vestured and still, And the night's first star outshone afar on the eve of Bunker Hill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25133]]></link><description><![CDATA[But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, if was Greek to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45275]]></link><description><![CDATA[All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of infinite possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17295]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea,  He wields a mighty scepter   O'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43217]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea,  He wields a mighty scepter   O'er lesser powers that be;    But a mightier power and stronger     Man from his throne has hurled,      For the hand that rocks the cradle       Is the hand that rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17529]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise!  Your children, wives, and grandsires ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise!  Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary,   Behold their tears and hear their cries!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're out there hiking with the girls at 5:30 and you see the other girls working out just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32113]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're out there hiking with the girls at 5:30 and you see the other girls working out just as hard as you are and panting and puffing ... you feel like you have to go on because they're going on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,  Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to success is always under construction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65835]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to success is always under construction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the train rolls by the cowsgrazing in the meadows.. and they hear the moosthe frightened criesof their fellowscaptive in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9189]]></link><description><![CDATA[the train rolls by the cowsgrazing in the meadows.. and they hear the moosthe frightened criesof their fellowscaptive in the cars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59]]></link><description><![CDATA[From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ordinary corporation is a person for purposes of the adjudicatory processes, whether it represents proprietary, spiritual, aesthetic, or charitable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ordinary corporation is a person for purposes of the adjudicatory processes, whether it represents proprietary, spiritual, aesthetic, or charitable causes. So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life. The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remember being 4 or 5 years old, sitting in front of a record player with headphones listening to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37312]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remember being 4 or 5 years old, sitting in front of a record player with headphones listening to my dad's albums,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47482]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and "charitable" acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. [Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9119]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. [Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58143]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--  And Winter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62094]]></link><description><![CDATA[All Nature seems at work, slugs leave their lair-- The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--  And Winter, slumbering in the open air,   Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!    And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,     Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right human relations is the only true peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right human relations is the only true peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast,  Our little English Robin; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast,  Our little English Robin;   The bird that comes about our doors    When autumn winds are sobbing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31372</guid></item></channel></rss>