<?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[Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours  Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours  Weeping, and watching for the morrow,--   He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.    [Ger., Wer nie sein Brod mit Thranen ass,     Wer nicht die kummervollen Nachte      Auf seinem Bette weinend sass,       Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Machte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14432]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where were you fellows when the paper was blank? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where were you fellows when the paper was blank?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. -King John. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55793]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that stands upon a slippery place Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27275]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boast during the day; be humble at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boast during the day; be humble at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strategy is to frustrate the other team by trying to make them play in front of you, by not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strategy is to frustrate the other team by trying to make them play in front of you, by not giving them holes and by being as compact as possible. You have to move the ball even quicker than when you have 11 men because they are going to try and pressure you. There are opportunities to get at them but they did a good job of closing us down. But I think we did an equally good job of holding on to the ball when we did have possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird  Always gayest of the gay,   Though a woodland roundelay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird  Always gayest of the gay,   Though a woodland roundelay    You ne'er sung not heard;     Though your life from youth to age      Passes is a narrow cage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39421]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14843]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw; I could not bringMy passions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26902]]></link><description><![CDATA[From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw; I could not bringMy passions from a common spring.From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow; I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone;And all I loved, I loved alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/779]]></link><description><![CDATA[I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58463]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Armes of England will not arme feare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49108]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the Armes of England will not arme feare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4738]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15467]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In climes beyond the solar road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58290]]></link><description><![CDATA[In climes beyond the solar road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31325]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's putting the ball over the plate, hitting his spots and trusting the defense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7753]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, as we know Him, is a gift to us from Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20119]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. [Lat., Idem Accio quod Titio jus esto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17201]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. [Lat., Idem Accio quod Titio jus esto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56869]]></link><description><![CDATA[We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a state of openness or trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a state of openness or trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,  That walks at dead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,  That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand   O'er some new-open'd grave; and, (strange to tell!)    Evanishes at crowing of the cock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair,  That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair,  That, like thy petals, trembles in possession,   And scatters on the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48014]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised me less. [Fr., Cela est beau, et je vous louerais davantage si vous m'aviez loue moins.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold of what delusive worth The bubbles we pursue on earth,  The shapes we chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold of what delusive worth The bubbles we pursue on earth,  The shapes we chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Across the wires the electric message came: / `He is no better, he is much the same.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Across the wires the electric message came: / `He is no better, he is much the same.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We urge the Supreme People's Court to conduct an immediate review of this decision with a view to overturning it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41751]]></link><description><![CDATA[We urge the Supreme People's Court to conduct an immediate review of this decision with a view to overturning it. Extending the death penalty to cover more crimes goes against the international trend towards abolition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the mind is open and awakethen.... do the gods partaketo fill the spaces inbetweenthe dreamer and his dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12820]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the mind is open and awakethen.... do the gods partaketo fill the spaces inbetweenthe dreamer and his dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At this point in the investigation, there is no indication that he had anything to do with the murders of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33719]]></link><description><![CDATA[At this point in the investigation, there is no indication that he had anything to do with the murders of his wife and daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62021]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52696]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15623</guid></item></channel></rss>