<?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[I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55121]]></link><description><![CDATA[A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25060]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix his course. [It., Fra l' ombre un lampo solo  Basta al nocchier fugace   Che gia ritrova il polo,    Gia riconosce il mar.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[is not something that we own and that we can give out to whoever we want, to our friends, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34988]]></link><description><![CDATA[is not something that we own and that we can give out to whoever we want, to our friends, to those who suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50006]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56657]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   Our wills are not ours to be crushed and broken; they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   Our wills are not ours to be crushed and broken; they are ours to be trained and strengthened. Our affections are not ours to be blighted and crucified; they are ours to be deepened and purified. The rich opportunities of life are not held out to us only to be snatched away by an invisible hand patiently waiting for the hour when the cup is sweetest; they are given to us that we may grow, alike through their rise or their withdrawal. They are real, they are sweet, and they are worthy of our longing for them; we gain nothing by calling them dross, or the world an illusion, or ourselves the victims of deception, or by exalting renunciation as the highest virtue. When these opportunities are denied us, it is a real, not an imaginary, loss which we sustain; and our part is not that of bare renunciation, of simple surrender; our part is to recognize the loss, to bear the pain, and to find a deeper and richer life in doing the will of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust,  Trod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust,  Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,   Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind,    There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,     And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He taketh wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61744]]></link><description><![CDATA[He taketh wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64520]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28143]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they were made or just happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988   There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988   There are no crown wearers in heaven who were not cross bearers here below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the LambWOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the LambWOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suggestions provide framework of how to change our culture. We are going through semester plans and are trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suggestions provide framework of how to change our culture. We are going through semester plans and are trying to figure out how to use the suggestions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously I?m disappointed. But you don?t always get everything that you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously I?m disappointed. But you don?t always get everything that you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world seems ... a little less funny without you in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world seems ... a little less funny without you in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22517]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next way home's the farthest way about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51051]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next way home's the farthest way about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43031]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28079]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was kind of like the big bang theory, except instead of nothing building up and creating the universe fail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36913]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was kind of like the big bang theory, except instead of nothing building up and creating the universe fail built up and exploded creating him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defining night by darkness, death by dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defining night by darkness, death by dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise  By the stairway of surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise  By the stairway of surprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness. [Lat., Nec audiendi sunt qui solent dicere vox populi, vox dei; cum tumultus vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We voted for the one who can make a change, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28535]]></link><description><![CDATA[We voted for the one who can make a change,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57578]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being wrong should not be associated with failure. It should instead be celebrated, for it brings someone to a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being wrong should not be associated with failure. It should instead be celebrated, for it brings someone to a new level of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is True Evil in this World, it Lies in the Heart of Mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26240]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is True Evil in this World, it Lies in the Heart of Mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59804]]></link><description><![CDATA[God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely the worst experience of my life that I ever want to live through, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely the worst experience of my life that I ever want to live through,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, but do so then; and look you, he may come and go between you both; and in any case have a nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; for 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness. Old folks, you know, have discretion, as they say, and know the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47800]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;  Though every prospect pleases,   And only man is vile;    In vain with lavish kindness     The gifts of God are strown;      The heathen in his blindness       Bows down to wood and stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21284]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  When you hear someone saying unworthy and hard words of you, then it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Holy Cross  When you hear someone saying unworthy and hard words of you, then it is given to you to drink medicine for your soul from the cup of the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really knows the difference. She is always smelling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29323]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really knows the difference. She is always smelling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20629</guid></item></channel></rss>