<?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[In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30741]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last ten years we have come to realize humans are more like worms than we ever imagined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protests demonstrate our marvelous democratic system. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protests demonstrate our marvelous democratic system.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13840]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes down to it, water, sewer, roads and rail is what you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37364]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes down to it, water, sewer, roads and rail is what you need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport, And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,--  Crouching 'midst rosy bowers thou lurk'st ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport, And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,--  Crouching 'midst rosy bowers thou lurk'st unseen   Slumbering the festal hours away,    While Youth disports in that enchanting scene;     Till on some fated day      Thou with a tiger-spring dost leap upon thy prey,       And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66559]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am  To dress thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am  To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33906]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59164]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58320]]></link><description><![CDATA[O God! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain;  To sit upon a hill, as I do now,   To carve out dials, quaintly, point by point,    Thereby to see the minutes, how they run--     How many makes the hour full complete,      How many hours brings about the day,       How many days will finish up the year,        How many years a mortal man may live;         When this is known, then to divide the times--          So many hours must I tend my flock,           So many hours must I take my rest,            So many hours must I contemplate,             So many hours must I sport myself;              So many days my ewes have been with young,               So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,                So many months ere I shall shear the fleece.                 So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years,                  Passed over to the end they were created,                   Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.                    Ah, what a life were this!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think before you speak the other guy gets its joke in first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think before you speak the other guy gets its joke in first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to England ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to England or wherever. Now they all want you to do it at the same time and you can't. It's just not physically possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11502]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19374]]></link><description><![CDATA[One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a fulltime mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure Love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a fulltime mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure Love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This girl is a rebel with a cause to challenge the mundane. She's Brigitte Bardot meets Pink. Her hair is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32072]]></link><description><![CDATA[This girl is a rebel with a cause to challenge the mundane. She's Brigitte Bardot meets Pink. Her hair is high-maintenance, but when it's time to put it all together, it's a devil-may-care attitude to create the finished look. She's not satisfied with one style and likes to keep her court guessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50365]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54849]]></link><description><![CDATA[A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everythingelse. You will see it coming into your life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everythingelse. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached toneeding it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18937]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protecting ourselves optimally against terrorist acts will require that both national and state governments, as well as the public, be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protecting ourselves optimally against terrorist acts will require that both national and state governments, as well as the public, be cognizant of the real dangers,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon trying to modify Him and bring Him nearer to our own image.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53961]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your neighbor is the man who needs you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your neighbor is the man who needs you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a good bargaine thinke twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49681]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a good bargaine thinke twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you had your life to live over again--you'd need more money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27780]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you had your life to live over again--you'd need more money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What can't be cured must be endured ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What can't be cured must be endured]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has been figured out, except how to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who thought he'd won The field as certain as a gun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who thought he'd won The field as certain as a gun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear  The better reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50648]]></link><description><![CDATA[All was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear  The better reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brett was seen by doctors and they are happy with the progress of treatment so far. The problem areas around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brett was seen by doctors and they are happy with the progress of treatment so far. The problem areas around his left knee appear to have improved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5537]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10342]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great and good are seldom the same man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great and good are seldom the same man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16656</guid></item></channel></rss>