<?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[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a lot of interest in resources stocks and the sector looks set for a good move forward. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a lot of interest in resources stocks and the sector looks set for a good move forward. There are all the usual stories about overseas predators targeting Australian miners, which look cheap on a world-wide comparison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6381]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45419]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One fine day, Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he.  "So! you're a poet in your house," and smiled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46846]]></link><description><![CDATA[One fine day, Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he.  "So! you're a poet in your house," and smiled.   "A Poet? God forbid," I cried; and then    It all came out: how Andrew slyly sent     Verse to the paper; how they printed it      In Poet's Corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44162]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What ye have been ye still shall be When we are dust the dust among,  O yellow flowers! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10969]]></link><description><![CDATA[What ye have been ye still shall be When we are dust the dust among,  O yellow flowers!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12054]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8528]]></link><description><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, an image of God, and the ordinate and faithful appreciation of that thing a clue, which, truly followed, will lead back to Him. Holding [the Way of Rejection], we see that every created thing, the highest devotion to moral duty, the purest conjugal love, the saint and the seraph, is no more than an image; that every one of them, followed for its own sake and isolated from its source, becomes an idol whose service is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hindsight is an exact science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hindsight is an exact science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A relationship is like a rose,How long it lasts, no one knows;Love can erase an awful past,Love can be yours, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2194]]></link><description><![CDATA[A relationship is like a rose,How long it lasts, no one knows;Love can erase an awful past,Love can be yours, you'll see at last;To feel that love, it makes you sigh,To have it leave, you'd rather die;You hope you've found that special rose,'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't really make another Blur record that's a big landscape sort of thing, due to my very basic guitar ability, ... I want to sing and play so it has to be three chords. I can only do three chords and not look at the guitar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22825]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done.  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.   Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All diseases run into one, old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1886]]></link><description><![CDATA[All diseases run into one, old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In comparison to a prior study that we did among male physicians, the risk of sudden cardiac death during vigorous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31786]]></link><description><![CDATA[In comparison to a prior study that we did among male physicians, the risk of sudden cardiac death during vigorous exertion was approximately 19 times higher in men than in women. On the other hand, women who exercised four or more hours per week reduced their risk of sudden cardiac death during exercise by about sixty percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could do it all over again, I would. Not all of high school, just my senior year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29971]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could do it all over again, I would. Not all of high school, just my senior year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man and His Two SweetheartsA middle aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man and His Two SweetheartsA middle aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her admirer visited her, to pull out some portion of his black hairs. The younger, on the contrary, not wishing to become the wife of an old man, was equally zealous in removing every gray hair she could find. Thus it came to pass that between them both he very soon found that he had not a hair left on his head. Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22148]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tillich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every vice has its excuse ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every vice has its excuse ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16503]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ceased: but left so charming on their ear His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60913]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ceased: but left so charming on their ear His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64139]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. [Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. [Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent  Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrosum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57616]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:  A sadder and a wiser man, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:  A sadder and a wiser man,   He rose the morrow morn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In sports and journeys men are knowne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49544]]></link><description><![CDATA[In sports and journeys men are knowne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no God, and the foundation of our nature is seditious, impious, refractory, opposed to and contemptuous of all that tries to rule it, and therefore contrary to order, ungovernable and negative. It is this foundation which Christianity calls the natural man. But the savage which is within us, and constitutes the primitive stuff of us, must be disciplined and civilized in order to produce a man. And the man must be patiently cultivated to produce a wise man; and the wise man must be tested and tried if he is to become righteous, and the righteous man must have substituted the will of God for his individual will, if he is to become a saint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be a procedure to present the government to parliament for discussion and approval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41287]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be a procedure to present the government to parliament for discussion and approval.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There 's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55840]]></link><description><![CDATA[There 's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopefully this will get over there and, you know, maybe we can find him like we did Jill Carroll. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hopefully this will get over there and, you know, maybe we can find him like we did Jill Carroll.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the sounds of the earth are like music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43485]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the sounds of the earth are like music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43485</guid></item></channel></rss>