<?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[Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they are hurting . It is the last socially acceptable prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52147]]></link><description><![CDATA[No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20391]]></link><description><![CDATA[By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25046]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted.  There are some you love, I know;   Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted.  There are some you love, I know;   Be not loath to tell them so.    Lips go dry and eyes grow wet     Waiting to be warmly met,      Keep them not in waiting yet;       Kisses kept are wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14642]]></link><description><![CDATA[In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50410]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is commands joined to threats of punishment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is commands joined to threats of punishment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would certainly love to welcome her back somewhere down the road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would certainly love to welcome her back somewhere down the road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This deal makes sense for both companies. Bank of New York has been expanding in the custodial business and doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36833]]></link><description><![CDATA[This deal makes sense for both companies. Bank of New York has been expanding in the custodial business and doing a fine job. This shift out of distribution is an ideal fit for J.P. Morgan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4799]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we read history we make history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19427]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we read history we make history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,  And all went merry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,  And all went merry as a marriage bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56897]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17703]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search  Of foreign words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/668]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search  Of foreign words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4951]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's name;   Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out    Among the giant fossils of my past,     Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs      Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there       At this or that box, pulling through the gap,        In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,         The first book first. And how I felt it beat          Under my pillow, in the morning's dark,           An hour before the sun would let me read!            My books!             At last, because the time was ripe,              I chanced upon the poets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/477]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10015]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17770]]></link><description><![CDATA[For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears we will have a balanced budget with no [fare] increase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears we will have a balanced budget with no [fare] increase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him. [Lat., Virtutis expers verbis jactans gloriam  Ignotos fallit, notis est derisui.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. [Philippians 4:2].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music be the food of love, play on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27577]]></link><description><![CDATA[How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And see all sights from pole to pole, / And glance, and nod, and bustle by; / And never once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42223]]></link><description><![CDATA[And see all sights from pole to pole, / And glance, and nod, and bustle by; / And never once possess our soul / Before we die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late;  And studying all the summer night, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late;  And studying all the summer night,   Her matchless songs does meditate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide  And spend her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide  And spend her strength with overmatching waves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3256]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sky full of silent suns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56519]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sky full of silent suns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would seem to favor the community colleges, to the detriment of students who would prefer to attend a university. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42513]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would seem to favor the community colleges, to the detriment of students who would prefer to attend a university. Some kids are better served at community colleges, and some kids are better served at universities. That decision should be based on academic reasons, not economic reasons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his duties on the court ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his duties on the court until a precipitous decline in his health the last couple of days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to overdo luxury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to overdo luxury]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening  To silence, for no lonely bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening  To silence, for no lonely bird would sing   Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn,    Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;--     Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright      With tangled gossamer that fell by night,       Pearling his coronet of golden corn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth;  May breathing sweet her Spring perfumes,   November thundering from the North.    With hands upraised, as with one voice,     They join their notes in grand accord;      Hail to December! say they all,       It gave to Earth our Christ the Lord!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been frustrated as a council member in the past, whenever we get donated open space it's never usable. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been frustrated as a council member in the past, whenever we get donated open space it's never usable. This is the first time the land could be a benefit to the entire town to use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52733]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52733</guid></item></channel></rss>