<?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[He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49359]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17092]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum  Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I was going off all by myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13369]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers. [Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63610]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sole equality on earth is death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sole equality on earth is death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll let the voters make the determination about the impact of this. It's unlikely he'll eat into our base. Lynn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40658]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll let the voters make the determination about the impact of this. It's unlikely he'll eat into our base. Lynn Swann is Western Pennsylvania.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47379]]></link><description><![CDATA[This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18570]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which we go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Bible, faith is a mixture of trust and trustworthiness. To have complete confidence in God makes a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6566]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the Bible, faith is a mixture of trust and trustworthiness. To have complete confidence in God makes a man reliable. And, when someone never lets you down, you look instinctively for a deeper relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody said it wasn't going to snow, and I kept telling everybody, 'Hey, I think it's going to snow'. Winter's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody said it wasn't going to snow, and I kept telling everybody, 'Hey, I think it's going to snow'. Winter's not over yet. Everybody's like, 'Oh! Take my studded tires off!' And I'm like, 'I wouldn't take studded tires off quite yet,' and here it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of Katrina, everybody's having a lot of stress, so we thought we have to have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of Katrina, everybody's having a lot of stress, so we thought we have to have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this one I just want to make sure it was OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30711]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this one I just want to make sure it was OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945   Furthermore, [the unchristian environment] is the place where we find out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945   Furthermore, [the unchristian environment] is the place where we find out whether the Christian's meditation has led him into the unreal, from which he awakens in terror when he returns to the workaday world, or whether it has led him into a real contact with God, from which he emerges strengthened and purified. Has it transported him for a moment into a spiritual ecstasy that vanishes when everyday life returns, or has it lodged the Word of God so securely and deeply in his heart that it holds and fortifies him, impelling him to active love, to obedience, to good works? Only the day can decide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be human means to feel inferior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14606]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be human means to feel inferior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An upright judge, a learned judge! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55609]]></link><description><![CDATA[An upright judge, a learned judge! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first meeting was designed by the Birmingham Regional Planning Commission to judge what we saw as strengths and weaknesses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first meeting was designed by the Birmingham Regional Planning Commission to judge what we saw as strengths and weaknesses in the town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Clo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55769]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Clo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AstronomerAn astronomer used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The AstronomerAn astronomer used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give,  When its resistless accents flow   To bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20951]]></link><description><![CDATA[E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give,  When its resistless accents flow   To bid affection live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to talk to people and hear their concerns, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41616]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to talk to people and hear their concerns,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52533]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're there before it's over, you're on time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we not all members of the same Body and partakers of the same Spirit and heirs of the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are we not all members of the same Body and partakers of the same Spirit and heirs of the same blessed hope of eternal life? ... Why do we not, as becomes brethren, dwell together in unity, but are so apt to quarrel and break out into heats, to crumble into sects and parties, to divide and separate from one another upon every trifling occasion? Give me leave... in the name of our dear Lord ... to recommend to you this new commandment of his, that ye love one another. Which is almost a new commandment still, and hardly the worse for wearing, so seldom is it put on, and so little hath it been practiced among Christians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50808]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39101]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2599]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry. -Thomas Haliburton.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62338]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany must have her place in the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Germany must have her place in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54790]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54790</guid></item></channel></rss>