<?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 soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark  Of the unfathomed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark  Of the unfathomed centre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/997]]></link><description><![CDATA[The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness can exist only in acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until its done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58026]]></link><description><![CDATA[It always seems impossible until its done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66115]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65715]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12549]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hard beginning maketh a good ending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once in royal David's city / Stood a lowly cattle shed, / Where a Mother laid her Baby / In a manger for His bed: / Mary was that Mother mild, / Jesus Christ her little Child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25518]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19446]]></link><description><![CDATA[We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In politics nothing is contemptible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics nothing is contemptible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And still it half calls up the realms of fairy,   Where I beheld what never was to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -A Midsummer Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anger of those in authority is always weighty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anger of those in authority is always weighty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12703]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21728]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19632]]></link><description><![CDATA[A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9347]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the 3.6 million year old fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would tell you that I think it was very loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36338]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would tell you that I think it was very loose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Previously, movies dealing with Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians have always had the stigma that they are automatically guilty. This film ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Previously, movies dealing with Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians have always had the stigma that they are automatically guilty. This film moves the issue closer to a more neutral stance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,— Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55711]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,— Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. -The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58347]]></link><description><![CDATA[The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is injury let me sow pardon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is injury let me sow pardon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51964]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. (0400 GMT) this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. (0400 GMT) this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35103]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17523]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The kingdom of heaven is not come even when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53248]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49406]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hyperborean skies Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56518]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hyperborean skies Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun will set without thy assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21786]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun will set without thy assistance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)  Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9924]]></link><description><![CDATA[In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)  Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,   In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high    Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate,     Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute;      And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a tough kid. He wrestles a whole match. He doesn't stop wrestling. If you take a second off with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a tough kid. He wrestles a whole match. He doesn't stop wrestling. If you take a second off with that kid -- obviously that's the result your going to get. But we're going to prepare for him because we're definitely going to see him again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28353</guid></item></channel></rss>