<?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[Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dont put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you're ever living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dont put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you're ever living is in this moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is asleep -- there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is asleep -- there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our necessities never equal our wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our necessities never equal our wants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man meets his Waterloo at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man meets his Waterloo at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11332]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52780]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52770]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort,  Whose wit well managed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort,  Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,   Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CLOVER VEILA clover veil..violets the valeneith skies cloudclador when ultravioletsun prevails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19806]]></link><description><![CDATA[CLOVER VEILA clover veil..violets the valeneith skies cloudclador when ultravioletsun prevails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages:  For no one cares for matrimonial cooings.   There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss.    Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,     He would have written sonnets all his life?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48533]]></link><description><![CDATA[To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has become clear from the huge crowds on the street for the queen ... is that they do appreciate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31386]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has become clear from the huge crowds on the street for the queen ... is that they do appreciate the sense of continuity, of steadiness that the queen gives by having been in that role for a very long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm; The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm; The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody believes a rumor here in Washington until it's officially denied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My tables--meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.  At ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56687]]></link><description><![CDATA[My tables--meet it is I set it down That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.  At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9256]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every hero becomes a bore at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every hero becomes a bore at last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41621]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61313]]></link><description><![CDATA[You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Based off of what I've heard overall, I think people were very pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Based off of what I've heard overall, I think people were very pleased.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62547]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! the perfidious English! [Fr., Ah! la perfide Angleterre!]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51148]]></link><description><![CDATA[He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Nothing could better illustrate this authentic spirit of Christian monasticism, stemming from Johannite monasticism, than one of its most recent examples, Father de Foucauld. If he went out to the Ahaggar plateau, it was not only to find but also to proclaim God, thereby teaching the gospel in a way which desert people could understand. After his death, the example set by this hermit was followed by others who, far from settling in the desert places of the Sahara, set out to mingle with the peopled deserts of the great cities, there to preach the gospel by their example and their very presence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is kept alive on the milk of asses which she takes with her wherever she goes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50482]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is kept alive on the milk of asses which she takes with her wherever she goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You’re through. Finished. Burned out. Used up. You’ve been replaced. . . forgotten. That’s a lie! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4997]]></link><description><![CDATA[You’re through. Finished. Burned out. Used up. You’ve been replaced. . . forgotten. That’s a lie!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  The idea of "conviction" is complex. It involves the concepts of authoritative examination, of unquestionable proof, of decisive judgment, of punitive power. Whatever the final issue may be, he who "convicts" another places the truth of the case in dispute in a clear light before him, so that it must be seen and acknowledged as truth. He who then rejects the conclusion which the exposition involves, rejects it with his eyes open and at his peril. Truth seen as truth carries with it condemnation to all who refuse to welcome it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first reaction to truth is hatred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first reaction to truth is hatred]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you like a fat kid loves cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you like a fat kid loves cake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[we have to provide them with agricultural assistance, invest in irrigation, build roads, and provide electric power and assistance in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28272]]></link><description><![CDATA[we have to provide them with agricultural assistance, invest in irrigation, build roads, and provide electric power and assistance in generating non-farm employment in rural areas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56460]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts of men,   And bring them back to heaven again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These actors have been depicting my father as eating people, ... I was with him for many years, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36684]]></link><description><![CDATA[These actors have been depicting my father as eating people, ... I was with him for many years, but I never saw any human flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1185]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd ask for specific things and he'd basically try to fool you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42546]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd ask for specific things and he'd basically try to fool you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62437</guid></item></channel></rss>