<?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[Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19823]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always say, 'Smile!' and sometimes that just ticks me off. I'm not a smiley guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39979]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always say, 'Smile!' and sometimes that just ticks me off. I'm not a smiley guy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't born with enough middle fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2119]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see it making sense for Wal-Mart from a dollars-and-cents standpoint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35557]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see it making sense for Wal-Mart from a dollars-and-cents standpoint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied.  Are they not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied.  Are they not then in strictest reason clear,   Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42846]]></link><description><![CDATA[More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46129]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56905]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373   Although it is indisputable that our Lord founded a church, it is an unproved assumption that the church is an aggregation of visible and organized societies. The theory upon which the public worship of the primitive churches proceeded was that each community was complete in itself, and that, in every act of public worship, every element of the community was present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've become real Americans. They fit right into the mainstream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28626]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've become real Americans. They fit right into the mainstream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46642]]></link><description><![CDATA[My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, "You are a thief."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56736]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When great poets sing, Into the night new constellations spring,  With music in the air that dulls the craft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55314]]></link><description><![CDATA[When great poets sing, Into the night new constellations spring,  With music in the air that dulls the craft   Of rhetoric. So when Shakespeare sang or laughed    The world with long, sweet Alpine echoes thrilled     Voiceless to scholars' tongues no muse had filled      With melody divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse; This book of starres lights to eternal blisse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Starres are poore books, and oftentimes do misse; This book of starres lights to eternal blisse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54914</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[I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there's considerable uncertainty in the market, like there is now, banks lead the decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36552]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there's considerable uncertainty in the market, like there is now, banks lead the decline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58131]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - The Saving Sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22131]]></link><description><![CDATA['We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - The Saving Sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What linebackers do is run and tackle, so you can't change the game to make it any easier. Besides, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30522]]></link><description><![CDATA[What linebackers do is run and tackle, so you can't change the game to make it any easier. Besides, this sort of thing really gets your focus sharp. What we're looking to do in this game, it kind of takes over everything else -- you really have to look at the opportunity you have instead of who's missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, whitelight. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM FOR THE 386."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail;  We'll pull his plumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail;  We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,   If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most curious offspring of shame is shyness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most curious offspring of shame is shyness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The puck hadn't been going in lately. I had to stick with it and stay positive. I'm glad I finally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37381]]></link><description><![CDATA[The puck hadn't been going in lately. I had to stick with it and stay positive. I'm glad I finally got one in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42816]]></link><description><![CDATA[There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself. [Lat., Nihil infelicius eo, cui nihil unquam evenit adversi, non licuit enim illi se experiri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! where the rosy bosom'd Hours Fair Venus' train appear,  Disclose the long-expecting flowers,   And wake the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! where the rosy bosom'd Hours Fair Venus' train appear,  Disclose the long-expecting flowers,   And wake the purple year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35095]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55775]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phœbus in his strength,—a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After my injury, it could have gone either way, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37370]]></link><description><![CDATA[After my injury, it could have gone either way,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought. If caustic criticism of religious institutions and practices is irreligious, then Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus were very irreligious men. In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have good home cooking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have good home cooking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lives of Israeli citizens will turn to hell very soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lives of Israeli citizens will turn to hell very soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4508]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22606]]></link><description><![CDATA[For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make enemies, try to change something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66752</guid></item></channel></rss>