<?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[And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light,  Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer;   Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25083]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light,  Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer;   Their pure breath sanctifies the air,    As its fragrance fills the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain;  Who from the dark and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain;  Who from the dark and doubtful love to run,   And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue. [Fr., On commence par etre dupe,  On finit par ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue. [Fr., On commence par etre dupe,  On finit par etre fripon.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, the gift of nature, Love, the gift of life, a Kiss, the gift of Love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, the gift of nature, Love, the gift of life, a Kiss, the gift of Love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55871]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, monstrous! but one half-pennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't find candy bars in vending machines in our schools anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't find candy bars in vending machines in our schools anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 -- bowling balls. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40177]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 -- bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!  What a world of happiness their harmony foretells   Through the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells!  What a world of happiness their harmony foretells   Through the balmy air of night    How they ring out their delight!     From the molten golden notes,      And all in tune       What a liquid ditty floats        To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats         On the moon!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59693]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56375]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave,  Ye are brothers! ye are men!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out spoke the victor then, As he hail'd them o'er the wave,  Ye are brothers! ye are men!   And we conquer but to save;    So peace instead of death let us bring;     But yield, proud foe, let us bring;      With the crews, at England's feet,       And make submission meet        To our King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi,  Injuriae qui addideris ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22844]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi,  Injuriae qui addideris contumeliam?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hidden Power of the Heart -Sara Paddison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1840]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Hidden Power of the Heart -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness induces caprice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness induces caprice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64618]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51207]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27730]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. - From a College Window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were excited to win. I give credit to my girls. They worked hard. Now we try to get ready ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40794]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were excited to win. I give credit to my girls. They worked hard. Now we try to get ready for district.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11410]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, far, better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the music while the music lasts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22718]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the music while the music lasts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fires the proud tops of the eastern pines. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fires the proud tops of the eastern pines. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not be surprised if a private equity group ended up buying Knight Ridder, and then took their time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not be surprised if a private equity group ended up buying Knight Ridder, and then took their time and sold off the assets to strategic buyers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22868]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The impossible - what nobody can do until somebody does ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The impossible - what nobody can do until somebody does]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51603]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  I saw full surely in this and in all, that ere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417  I saw full surely in this and in all, that ere God made us he loved us; which love never slackened, nor ever shall be. And in this love he hath done all his works; and in this love he hath made all things profitable to us; and in this love our life is everlasting. In our making we had beginning; but the love wherein he made us was in him from without beginning; in which love we have our beginning. And all this shall we see in God, without end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[According to the well-established supremacy doctrine, as well as the federal monopoly in immigration matters, the attorney general is under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32892]]></link><description><![CDATA[According to the well-established supremacy doctrine, as well as the federal monopoly in immigration matters, the attorney general is under no obligation to heed this invalid order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27294]]></link><description><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We might not need Barry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34859]]></link><description><![CDATA[We might not need Barry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adventure is worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adventure is worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you have a chance to play the team that's won the conference 50 times in a row, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you have a chance to play the team that's won the conference 50 times in a row, or however many times they've won it, you're going to get up for them. Every time we get a chance to play them we want to do our best. It always comes down to the last couple of possessions and it's unfortunate someone has to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60868]]></link><description><![CDATA[The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15267]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2767]]></link><description><![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture,  Of its own essence parcel pure.--   From grave simplicities a dress,    And reticent demureness,     And love encinctured with reserve;      Which the woven vesture would subserve.       For outward robes in their ostents        Should show the soul's habiliments.         Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so,          But better Fair I use to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40662]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42804]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. [Lat., Quando la mala ventura se duerme, nadie la despierte.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may never see base salary increases in the mid-to-upper 4 percent range again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39797]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may never see base salary increases in the mid-to-upper 4 percent range again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were horrified. They were asking what it was, and we were saying, 'Sadly it's probably ill,' and you're trying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28956]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were horrified. They were asking what it was, and we were saying, 'Sadly it's probably ill,' and you're trying to make it as light as you can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28956</guid></item></channel></rss>