<?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[If my best wines mislike thy taste, And my best service win thy frown,  Then tarry not, I bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19853]]></link><description><![CDATA[If my best wines mislike thy taste, And my best service win thy frown,  Then tarry not, I bid thee haste;   There's many another Inn in town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fare you well, my lord, and believe this of me: there can be no kernel in this light nut; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fare you well, my lord, and believe this of me: there can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is his clothes. Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50491]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be kept inside one brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since you have forsaken the world and turned wholly to God, you are symbolically dead in the eyes of men; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since you have forsaken the world and turned wholly to God, you are symbolically dead in the eyes of men; therefore, let your heart be dead to all earthly affections and concerns, and wholly devoted to our Lord Jesus Christ. For you must be well aware that if we make an outward show of conversion to God without giving Him our hearts, it is only a shadow and pretence of virtue, and no true conversion. Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a wretched creature. For they watch the doings of other people and criticize their faults, imagining themselves to be something when in reality they are nothing. In this way they deceive themselves. Be careful to avoid this, and devote yourself inwardly to His likeness by humility, charity, and other spiritual virtues. In this way you will be truly converted to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair,  That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair,  That, like thy petals, trembles in possession,   And scatters on the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9497]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished by elderly scientists and supports the idea with great fervour and emotion, the distinguished but elderly scientests are then, after all, right. -Isaac Asimov.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25933]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their writings are thoughts stolen from us by anticipation. [Fr., Leurs ecrits sont des vois qu'ils nous ont faite d'avance.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee;  He worked and sang, from morn to night; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9935]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee;  He worked and sang, from morn to night;   No lark so blithe as he.    And this the burden of his song,     Forever used to be,--      "I care for nobody, not I,       If no one cares for me."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Rome for everything. [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54403]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Rome for everything. [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our true nationality is mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our true nationality is mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is in conflict with human nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is in conflict with human nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there were some things that needed to be taken from public view after September 11. But we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there were some things that needed to be taken from public view after September 11. But we have seen, around the country, a number of cases where information has been taken down in the absence of good public discussion. Those discussions need to take place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who think all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859   I am, indeed, far from agreeing with those who think all religious fear barbarous and degrading and demand that it should be banished from the spiritual life. Perfect love, we know, casteth out fear. But so do several other things--ignorance, alcohol, passion presumption, and stupidity. It is very desirable that we should all advance to that perfection of love in which we shall fear no longer; but it is very undesirable, until we have reached that stage, that we should allow any inferior agent to cast out our fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut  The portals of our earthly destinies; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut  The portals of our earthly destinies;   We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors    Close after us, forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not even thinking about it right now. We won one game, now we've won two games and we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30480]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not even thinking about it right now. We won one game, now we've won two games and we have a winning streak. Our focus is on the next game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we're getting into the sites that are asking specific questions, even down to 'How was this date?' 'How are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we're getting into the sites that are asking specific questions, even down to 'How was this date?' 'How are they sexually?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8095]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   What should I think of my child, if I found that he limited his faith in me and hope from me to the few promises he had heard me utter! The faith that limits itself to the promises of God seems to me to partake of the paltry character of such a faith in my child -- good enough for a Pagan, but for a Christian a miserable and wretched faith. Those who rest in such a faith would feel yet more comfortable if they had God's bond instead of His word, which they regard not as the outcome of His character but as a pledge of His honour. They try to believe in the truth of His word, but the truth of His Being they understand not. In His oath they persuade themselves that they put confidence: in himself they do not believe, for they know Him not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we wish for others determines what we allow for ourselves. Unknown  Stop the mindless wishing that things would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61799]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we wish for others determines what we allow for ourselves. Unknown  Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. •Greg Anderson   A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. •Jean De La Bruyère   Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification. •Robert Dato  A wish is a desire without an attempt. •Farmer Digest  Oh, the secret life of man and woman -- dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest. •Zelda Fitzgerald  Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. •Jean Toomer  Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be. •Anonymous  Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. •St. Augustine   When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. •Elizabeth Bowen   Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. •Goethe   Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44798]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51271]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's simply neighbor helping out neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31482]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's simply neighbor helping out neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The carrot being held out is, 'If you really help us.' It all depends on his level of cooperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The carrot being held out is, 'If you really help us.' It all depends on his level of cooperation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For that can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47944]]></link><description><![CDATA[For that can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Cameron] was dazed, kind of not really there, ... I was like, 'Cam, can you hear me?' He mumbled, 'Yeah,' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41860]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Cameron] was dazed, kind of not really there, ... I was like, 'Cam, can you hear me?' He mumbled, 'Yeah,' but he wasn't there. You could tell he wasn't right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25534]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The planets in their station list'ning stood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The planets in their station list'ning stood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world always looks brighter from behind a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; Theless he spoke the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; Theless he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that bird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21926</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[The character came out of rehearsal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40313]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character came out of rehearsal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good people are always so sure they're right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good people are always so sure they're right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15214</guid></item></channel></rss>