<?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 want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46992]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29528]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25986]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38322]]></link><description><![CDATA[This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62024]]></link><description><![CDATA[One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He follows his father with unequal steps. [Lat., Sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14408]]></link><description><![CDATA[He follows his father with unequal steps. [Lat., Sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality confronts man with a great many "musts," but all of them are conditional; the formula of realistic necessity is: "You must, if " and the "if" stands for man's choice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my goodness. They showed a lot of heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my goodness. They showed a lot of heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52428]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of Apple's advertising is consistently above average. And more often than not, it's world class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of Apple's advertising is consistently above average. And more often than not, it's world class.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17900</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[Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37688]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had our ups and downs this year like any season. But it ended so perfectly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state  Empties itself, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54512]]></link><description><![CDATA[A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state  Empties itself, as dot an inland brook   Into the main of waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resistthem-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resistthem-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flownaturally forward in whatever way they like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps;  The robes ye weave, another wears;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps;  The robes ye weave, another wears;   The arms ye forge, another bears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A parlous boy. -King Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56005]]></link><description><![CDATA[A parlous boy. -King Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter holding both his sides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter holding both his sides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies never are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!  [Lat., Quam vellem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13936]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!  [Lat., Quam vellem longas tecum requiescere noctes,   Et tecum longos pervigilare dies.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits, Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;  And now the happy season once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59491]]></link><description><![CDATA[All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits, Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;  And now the happy season once more fits   That lovesick Love by pleading may be blest;    For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong     When it is barred the aidance of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A multinational company operating in Canada will have to have dozens and dozens of contracts with everybody who supplies them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32867]]></link><description><![CDATA[A multinational company operating in Canada will have to have dozens and dozens of contracts with everybody who supplies them with any personal information, including their own subsidiaries,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves--the creature of habits and infirmities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24942]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -Crowfoot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years;  And should he doubt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59976]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears Decrease not, but grow faster than the years;  And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth,   That I should open to the list'ning air    How many worthy princes' bloods were shed     To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope,      To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms       And make pretense of wrong that I have done him;        When all, for mine, if I may call offense,         Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence;          Which love to all, of which thyself art one,           Who now reproved'st me for't--]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   In the long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   In the long run, the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell is... a question: "What are you asking God to do?" To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that that is what He does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope they (teens) will be able to manage their money in a manner that is really successful for them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40807]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope they (teens) will be able to manage their money in a manner that is really successful for them and will provide for them for the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a blush In the midst of brown was born,  Like red poppies grown with corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a blush In the midst of brown was born,  Like red poppies grown with corn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And filled the air with barbarous dissonance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57293]]></link><description><![CDATA[And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5380]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A decent boldness ever meets with friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4468]]></link><description><![CDATA[A decent boldness ever meets with friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46460</guid></item></channel></rss>