<?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[I understand his decision as much as I hate to see him leave. He's a fine man, and I just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36892]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand his decision as much as I hate to see him leave. He's a fine man, and I just can't say enough good things about him and what he meant to the program.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65908]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of imagination makes us infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of imagination makes us infinite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He misses playing. He prepared really hard for his senior year. It has been tough on him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32539]]></link><description><![CDATA[He misses playing. He prepared really hard for his senior year. It has been tough on him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful when!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's the kind of person you want in your corner when all the chips are being played, Hit me! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38109]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's the kind of person you want in your corner when all the chips are being played, Hit me!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody with a ticket is now a 'ticket broker,' so how you describe the secondary market is becoming blurry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody with a ticket is now a 'ticket broker,' so how you describe the secondary market is becoming blurry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  There is no hope of establishing a Christian social order ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  There is no hope of establishing a Christian social order except through the labour and sacrifice of those in whom the Spirit of Christ is active.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27943]]></link><description><![CDATA[That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in.Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in.Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plague of all cowards, I say. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A plague of all cowards, I say. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Widow and the SheepA certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Widow and the SheepA certain poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh. The Sheep, writhing with pain, said, Why do you hurt me so, Mistress? What weight can my blood add to the wool? If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me. The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52119]]></link><description><![CDATA[All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,  The holy name ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18326]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,  The holy name of Grief--holy herein,   That, by the grief of One, came all our good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5776]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14071]]></link><description><![CDATA[You were constantly, Matho, a guest at my villa at Tivoli. Now you buy it--I have deceived you; I have merely sold you what was already your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59630]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marquise has a disagreeable day for her journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old soldiers never die; They fade away! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old soldiers never die; They fade away!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children when they are little make parents fooles, when they are great they make them mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to hold that God did great things for our fathers: not enough to pride ourselves on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to hold that God did great things for our fathers: not enough to pride ourselves on the inheritance of victories of faith: not enough to build the sepulchres of those who were martyred by men unwilling, in their day of trial as we may be in our own, to hear new voices of a living God. Our duty is to see whether God is with us; whether we expect great things from Him; whether we do not practically place Him far off, forgetting that, if He is, He is about us, speaking to us words that have not been heard before, guiding us to paths on which earlier generations have not been able to enter. There is -- most terrible thought! -- a practical atheism, orthodox in language, reverent in bearing, which can enter a Christian church and charm the conscience to rest with shadowy traditions; an atheism which grows incessantly within us if we separate what cannot be separated with impunity, the secular from the divine, the past and the future from the present, earth from heaven, the things of Caesar from the things of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2143]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46979]]></link><description><![CDATA[We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27163]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such  As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12629]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such  As see not the First Cause entire: and ye,   O mortal men! be wary how ye judge:    For we, who see the Maker, know not yet     The number of the chosen; and esteem      Such scantiness of knowledge our delight:       For all good is, in that primal good,        Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tried to make other people beat them, which we did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28361]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tried to make other people beat them, which we did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now being lifted into high society, And having pick'd up several odds and ends  Of free thoughts in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56760]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now being lifted into high society, And having pick'd up several odds and ends  Of free thoughts in his travels for variety,   He deem'd, being in a lone isle, among friends,    That without any danger of a riot, he     Might for long lying make himself amends;      And singing as he sung in his warm youth,       Agree to a short armistice with truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/380</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[Finally, we're going to have our day in court. We need a good showing of our membership in the courtroom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finally, we're going to have our day in court. We need a good showing of our membership in the courtroom to prove a point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ooh, that was just a little phase (smashing plates to relieve pain). I don't do that any more but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ooh, that was just a little phase (smashing plates to relieve pain). I don't do that any more but it was good fun, a release. I recommend it to everybody. That's as long as you're not hurting anybody. And find a place where you're not going to be in the way of anything. Oh and don't destroy anything valuable that you'll regret later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The restlessness that comes upon girls upon summer evenings results in lasting trouble unless it is speedily controlled. The right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The restlessness that comes upon girls upon summer evenings results in lasting trouble unless it is speedily controlled. The right kind of man does not look for a wife on the streets, and the right kind of girl waits till the man comes to her home for her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there's this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent than people that don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there's this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent than people that don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31164</guid></item></channel></rss>