<?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[Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13656]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a lemon, make lemonade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47435]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a lemon, make lemonade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16567]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Quid est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21025]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? [Lat., Quid est dementius quam bilem in homines collectam in res effundere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23050]]></link><description><![CDATA[When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15095]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it to climbing up a hill,   Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:    For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,     And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"      To have, when the original is dust,       A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I can do is really mow the cover crop quite short so the sun can reach the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I can do is really mow the cover crop quite short so the sun can reach the earth and the soil and really warm it quite a bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63620]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a tendency of late to interpret alienation from faith in intellectual rather than experiential terms. Academically oriented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6765]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a tendency of late to interpret alienation from faith in intellectual rather than experiential terms. Academically oriented Christians especially tend to think that the barriers to faith should be removed by repackaging the content of the message in a way more congenial to the modern outlook. But it is quite possible that we are dealing not so much with a failure of intellect as with an alienation from the experiential roots of Christianity itself so amply attested in the New Testament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Christians], at their best, know that often they don't know. They do not have all the answers. They do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7694]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Christians], at their best, know that often they don't know. They do not have all the answers. They do not have God in their pocket. We cannot answer every question that any bright boy in the back row might ask. We have only light enough to walk by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers,  The water is held in its arms  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers,  The water is held in its arms   And the sky is held in the water.    What is water,     That pours silver,      And can hold the sky?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55266]]></link><description><![CDATA[I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From labour health, from health contentment spring; Contentment opes the source of every joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9932]]></link><description><![CDATA[From labour health, from health contentment spring; Contentment opes the source of every joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox,  Who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox,  Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up,   Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65579]]></link><description><![CDATA[In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45294]]></link><description><![CDATA[When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark  As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/517]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22033]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61788]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town;  May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,   And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.    May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,     Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,      Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.   - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16844]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think I had ambition . . . but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9402]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within the reach of our resources. Both now depend upon human decision and human will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That makes it definitely worth watching how bonds are trading. When there are problems at a company, the institutional bond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40740]]></link><description><![CDATA[That makes it definitely worth watching how bonds are trading. When there are problems at a company, the institutional bond investors tend to figure it out before the rest of the retail market and dump their bonds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oil is being propped up by all the concerns that supplies will be interrupted. As long as the market thinks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oil is being propped up by all the concerns that supplies will be interrupted. As long as the market thinks it's possible, we might see some more increases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's still out enjoying his life and my brother is gone. We would like to see a little bit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29200]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's still out enjoying his life and my brother is gone. We would like to see a little bit of justice, that's all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns,  But breathes, like perfect joys,   Tender tones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood--  Our soldiers were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13191]]></link><description><![CDATA[When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood--  Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good.   Oh! the roast beef of England.    And Old England's roast beef.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place,  Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place,  Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,   Office, and custom, in all line of order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41667]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have seven suburban New York stores that people can go to if they can't get to the Manhattan location.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free;  They touch our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free;  They touch our country, and their shackles fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am disappointed a little because there was no concrete thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am disappointed a little because there was no concrete thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43866]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43866</guid></item></channel></rss>