<?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[Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  The soul which gives itself wholly and without reserve to God is filled with His own Peace; and inasmuch as we are prone to grow like that to which we are closely united, the closer we draw to our God, so much the stronger and more steadfast and more tranquil shall we become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,  Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,  Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754   There are... few stronger ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754   There are... few stronger indications of ignorance of the power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and subdue it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30277]]></link><description><![CDATA[These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43209]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,  So excellent a king, that was to this   Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven     Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,      Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him       As if increase of appetite had grown        By what it fed on, and yet within a month--         Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--          A little month, or ere those shoes were old           With which she followed my poor father's body            Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--             O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason              Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,               My father's brother, but no more like my father                Than I to Hercules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not want　only destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64010]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33323]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did a great job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64954]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62986]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever excused his way to success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14467]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever excused his way to success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is anything against Congressman Kolbe. They, (the gay Republicans -- including members of the Log Cabin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31883]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is anything against Congressman Kolbe. They, (the gay Republicans -- including members of the Log Cabin group), are trumpeting an agenda that they want the certain rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone effectively investigate complaints at a huge project like the Bay Bridge retrofit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25342]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. [Proverbs 20:4].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28748]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a bizarre, it's symptomatic that they allow this increase before the final safety rulings have been made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34204]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a bizarre, it's symptomatic that they allow this increase before the final safety rulings have been made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amidst the soft variety I'm lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have resumed natural gas supply from the field on Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. to the national grid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30572]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have resumed natural gas supply from the field on Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. to the national grid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23976]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell,  Soft eyes look'd love to eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11023]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell,  Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again,   And all went merry as a marriage bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is born without faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50303]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is born without faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24509]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51647]]></link><description><![CDATA[You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43580]]></link><description><![CDATA[After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms . . . both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66093]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43031]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like a conspiracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem, potionis sitim.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best defense is a good offence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best defense is a good offence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After 9/11, security cooperation with Australia became essential - it's part of the grand defense strategy of the US. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40296]]></link><description><![CDATA[After 9/11, security cooperation with Australia became essential - it's part of the grand defense strategy of the US.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15466]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the pride of Summer,--the green prime,-- The many, many leaves all twinkling?--three  On the mossed elm; three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the pride of Summer,--the green prime,-- The many, many leaves all twinkling?--three  On the mossed elm; three on the naked lime   Trembling,--and one upon the old oak tree!    Where is the Dryad's immortality?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11372</guid></item></channel></rss>