<?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[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were more skilled. They threw the ball well, caught the ball well and found the open man better than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29501]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were more skilled. They threw the ball well, caught the ball well and found the open man better than us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10761]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66121]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brother shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even one year is still excessive. In most employment contracts, trial periods are from one to six months. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even one year is still excessive. In most employment contracts, trial periods are from one to six months.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get too much winter in the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65776]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get too much winter in the winter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15095]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it to climbing up a hill,   Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:    For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,     And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"      To have, when the original is dust,       A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive thyself little, and others much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive thyself little, and others much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I follow him, to serve my turn upon him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51434]]></link><description><![CDATA[I follow him, to serve my turn upon him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets.  The corn is cut, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets.  The corn is cut, the manor full of game;   The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats    In russet jacket;--lynx-like is his aim;     Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats.      An, nutbrown partridges! An, brilliant pheasants!       And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50809]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his Cromwell--and George the Third--("Treason!" shouted the Speaker) may profit by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his Cromwell--and George the Third--("Treason!" shouted the Speaker) may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  I hear no one boast, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690   I find more marks of authenticity in the Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690   I find more marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an extension ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23557]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said, in regard to a judo expert's level of mental development, that "the arms are an extension of the mind."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9954]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55774]]></link><description><![CDATA[A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63265]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "successmechanism" within you takes over and does the job ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "successmechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better thanyou could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than arich person who is unhappy because the poor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than arich person who is unhappy because the poor person has hope. He thinksmoney will help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't use others as a crutch, for we must all go our own ways at one point or another, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't use others as a crutch, for we must all go our own ways at one point or another, and when they go you will inevitably fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A word spoken in due season, how good is it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A word spoken in due season, how good is it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll be really tight by the time we get down there to you guys. Everyone will have a really good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32554]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll be really tight by the time we get down there to you guys. Everyone will have a really good time. It's trite to say thanks to the fans, but we really mean it. We look forward to rocking everyone's socks off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A song of hate is a song of Hell; Some there be who sing it well.  Let them sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57213]]></link><description><![CDATA[A song of hate is a song of Hell; Some there be who sing it well.  Let them sing it loud and long,   We lift our hearts in a loftier song:    We life our hearts to Heaven above,     Singing the glory of her we love,      England.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are a finer world within the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are a finer world within the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die,  Espied a feather of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13107]]></link><description><![CDATA[That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die,  Espied a feather of his own,   Wherewith he wont to soar so high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such pains they take to look pretty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such pains they take to look pretty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;  Turn giddy and be holp by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51464]]></link><description><![CDATA[One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;  Turn giddy and be holp by backward turning;   One desperate grief cures with another's languish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51464</guid></item></channel></rss>