<?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 great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19301]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at each situation on a case-by-case basis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at each situation on a case-by-case basis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59612]]></link><description><![CDATA[He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was adored once too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was adored once too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27567]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[At Bacchus, which has 140 seats in its main dining room,] the booths and the corners are the most requested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31381]]></link><description><![CDATA[[At Bacchus, which has 140 seats in its main dining room,] the booths and the corners are the most requested tables, ... If you're four persons as opposed to two, my first option would be to give it to four. But if I'm not busy I'll accommodate two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your company is taken over for stock, I would sell unless I had a great reason. I'd ignore what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your company is taken over for stock, I would sell unless I had a great reason. I'd ignore what the chief executive officer had to say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/789]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good horse should be seldom spurred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good horse should be seldom spurred]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. -Margaret Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48386]]></link><description><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant dripping hollows out a stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant dripping hollows out a stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe anyone ever yet humbly, genuinely, thoroughly gave himself to Christ without some other finding Christ through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe anyone ever yet humbly, genuinely, thoroughly gave himself to Christ without some other finding Christ through him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56656]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We follow the parliament and will definitely implement its bills, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41296]]></link><description><![CDATA[We follow the parliament and will definitely implement its bills,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blushing is the color of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blushing is the color of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18411]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23487]]></link><description><![CDATA[When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know all about his (no-show) reputation and his temper. But I'm pretty darn confident he'll be here. I talked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know all about his (no-show) reputation and his temper. But I'm pretty darn confident he'll be here. I talked with him personally, and then with his agent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50461]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31621]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's almost a death wish in a way. What (the Tories) should be doing is trying to attract the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's almost a death wish in a way. What (the Tories) should be doing is trying to attract the best and the brightest to Ottawa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blasted with excess of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blasted with excess of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They contacted us, and they've been pretty honest about their progress, or lack thereof. I guess a phone book was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38935]]></link><description><![CDATA[They contacted us, and they've been pretty honest about their progress, or lack thereof. I guess a phone book was hard to come by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;  . . . .   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;  . . . .   The little waves, with their soft, white hands,    Efface the footprints in the sands,     And the tide rises, the tide falls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12613]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17372]]></link><description><![CDATA[BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5141]]></link><description><![CDATA[All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do make really good pets just because they're affectionate and playful and they honestly don't take a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39514]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do make really good pets just because they're affectionate and playful and they honestly don't take a lot of care.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better speake truth rudely, then lye covertly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/588]]></link><description><![CDATA[A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea is as near as we come to another world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea is as near as we come to another world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever--  And it may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59393]]></link><description><![CDATA[You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever--  And it may be for a day and a night,   And it well may be forever.    But whether we meet or whether we part,     (For our ways are past our knowing)      A pledge from the heart to its fellow heart,       On the ways we all are going!        Here's luck!         For we know not where we are going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59393</guid></item></channel></rss>