<?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[The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women, can't live with them, can't live without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7691]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65314]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bubble winked at me, and said, "You'll miss me brother, when you're dead." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59392]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bubble winked at me, and said, "You'll miss me brother, when you're dead."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are moms who choose not to work outside the home, but they aren't polishing silver; they're playing with their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34385]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are moms who choose not to work outside the home, but they aren't polishing silver; they're playing with their kids -- (or) home schooling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't forthe government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21551]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't forthe government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates  With fast thick warble his delicious notes,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44542]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates  With fast thick warble his delicious notes,   As he were fearful that an April night    Would be too short for him to utter forth     His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul      Of all its music!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tears are the summer showers to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tears are the summer showers to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe you can and you're halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe you can and you're halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65052]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1045]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. [Lat., Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57858]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. [Lat., Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendem rei publicae causae.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor needs to stay on message, and that is getting people out of New Orleans, provide stability for them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor needs to stay on message, and that is getting people out of New Orleans, provide stability for them and rebuild. The governor must look like the leader at all times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54883]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are fooles one to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50042]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are fooles one to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60887]]></link><description><![CDATA[But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We?re still trying to find ourselves on the mound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We?re still trying to find ourselves on the mound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1302]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66049]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. What is your study? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. What is your study?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45088]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor  Stands in worse case of woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor  Stands in worse case of woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49326]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can make a fire well, can end a quarrell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39531]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superstition was that disability of any sort was the mark of the devil. The phrases are in languages throughout Europe: the devil's hoof, the devil's horn mark. It reaches back to early Christianity and the middle ages. Where a child was born out of wedlock, the church cooked up the impression that you'd done something sinful, and something dreadful would result. You will still find, particularly in Greece, people doing a little sign when they see a very badly disabled child ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ it needs warding off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain. [Lat., Sit mihi quod nunc est, etiam minus et mihi vivam  Quod superest aevi--si quid superesse volunt di.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to play every play like it's the first play of the game. There's definitely no time to slip ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38185]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to play every play like it's the first play of the game. There's definitely no time to slip up or take a play off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This city, which has taken its place in the history of our century, is now being called upon to help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41937]]></link><description><![CDATA[This city, which has taken its place in the history of our century, is now being called upon to help launch a new millennium,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defeat may test you; it need not stop you. If at first you don't succeed, try another way. For every obstacle there is a solution. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. The greatest mistake is giving up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're smart in that aspect. We know our spots. We get to where we need to be. We press as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41777]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're smart in that aspect. We know our spots. We get to where we need to be. We press as much as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's still frustrating to us that a national environmental organization that's never seen it or knows nothing about it is trying to preserve a piece of land that's got oil wells all over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37881</guid></item></channel></rss>