<?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[Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The itch of scribbling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The itch of scribbling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care,  And come like the benediction   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care,  And come like the benediction   That follows after prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65276]]></link><description><![CDATA[All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and everything after that is just cost savings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34191]]></link><description><![CDATA[and everything after that is just cost savings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good wine needs no bush ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good wine needs no bush]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45844]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest condition takes rise in the lowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars! - Caliban in the Coal Mines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66409]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.It's kind of fun to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15368]]></link><description><![CDATA[What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get your feet on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get your feet on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. [Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away. [Take heed of still waters, they quick pass away.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a written agreement you have a prayer; with averbal agreement you have nothing but air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22395]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a written agreement you have a prayer; with averbal agreement you have nothing but air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53681]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together  With a stein on the table and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19861]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together  With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels kind of good to come through the back door, score some points for the team and finish third. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40316]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels kind of good to come through the back door, score some points for the team and finish third.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65382]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She was outstanding all around. She was spiking from the back row. She was consistent in all aspects of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42642]]></link><description><![CDATA[She was outstanding all around. She was spiking from the back row. She was consistent in all aspects of the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63734]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not yet reached a consensus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not yet reached a consensus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Some callers] aren't paying their electric (bill) in order to get their medicine, ... aren't getting their medicine in order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33610]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Some callers] aren't paying their electric (bill) in order to get their medicine, ... aren't getting their medicine in order to pay their electric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Green calm below, blue quietness above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green calm below, blue quietness above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We actually started having meetings yesterday morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35294]]></link><description><![CDATA[We actually started having meetings yesterday morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64665]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711  [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that, in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the kingdom"; others, of a more secular turn of mind, echoed J. A. Symonds' hymn, "These Things Shall Be". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture that was the substance of its belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could be several weeks before we know the damage, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30656]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could be several weeks before we know the damage,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrows are from her dowry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrows are from her dowry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45778]]></link><description><![CDATA[And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  If indeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752  If indeed there had been anything better and more profitable to the health of men than to suffer, Christ would surely have shown it by word and example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure there's going to be resistance, but it's probably time we headed in that direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure there's going to be resistance, but it's probably time we headed in that direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65665]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, crowding out tends to mitigate the effects of fiscal policy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38032]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, crowding out tends to mitigate the effects of fiscal policy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38032</guid></item></channel></rss>