<?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[Wishers and woulders be small householders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wishers and woulders be small householders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanity is a cozy lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanity is a cozy lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a risky team and we were just a little too risky tonight. They seem to just score with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a risky team and we were just a little too risky tonight. They seem to just score with their chances. Defensively we weren't where we wanted to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been an amazing market -- a 'Benny Goodman' market with plenty of swing, ... My sense is mood, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28648]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been an amazing market -- a 'Benny Goodman' market with plenty of swing, ... My sense is mood, momentum and money flow are still up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61710]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift in life is to be remembered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65397]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57105]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54058]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair:  For in the past alone, I build ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60883]]></link><description><![CDATA[My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair:  For in the past alone, I build   My castles in the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1782]]></link><description><![CDATA[If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None but tyrants have any business to be afraid. [Fr., Fr., Il n'appartient, qu'aux tyrans d'etre toujours en crainte.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59970]]></link><description><![CDATA[None but tyrants have any business to be afraid. [Fr., Fr., Il n'appartient, qu'aux tyrans d'etre toujours en crainte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the weakest is thrust to the wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the weakest is thrust to the wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really, they should go back to school and learn something new and use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Really, they should go back to school and learn something new and use it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675   What happens to someone who follows heretical teachings? It became quickly and readily apparent how cruel heretical teachings are and how prevalent the heresies are in contemporary times. Victims of these teachings have been encouraged to either to escape the world and their basic humanity into some form of flight and death or to use religion to undergird and isolate further their own self-centered self from the need to be loved and to love...   The conviction that heresy is cruel has given me a growing awe of and respect for orthodoxy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chances are not great that all counties in California, including ours, will be able to get enough machines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chances are not great that all counties in California, including ours, will be able to get enough machines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Florian   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Florian               Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born poets. we become orators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born poets. we become orators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're making too much money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're making too much money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light: when we see them in the hand of God, Who dispenses them; when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us; our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as we change the first light bulb, they'll start saving money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34192]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as we change the first light bulb, they'll start saving money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is theend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is theend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1011]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8039]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet we are not to omit reading the abstruser texts, which have any appearance of relating to us; but should follow the example of the Blessed Virgin, who understood not several of our Saviour's sayings, but kept them all in her heart. Were we only to learn humility thus, it would be enough; but we shall by degrees come to apprehend far more than we expected, if we diligently compare spiritual things to spiritual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Aesthetics of Repetition II ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30991]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Aesthetics of Repetition II]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. [Fr., La patrie est aux lieux ou l'ame est enchainee.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the men on my staff can type. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27038]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the men on my staff can type.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12227]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred can be overcome only by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred can be overcome only by love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is settled anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is settled anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very pleased at the improvement we've made. I am pleased at our direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very pleased at the improvement we've made. I am pleased at our direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60685</guid></item></channel></rss>