<?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 am a novelist, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a novelist,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour  Calls us to penance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53822]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour  Calls us to penance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12652]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10309]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He used to raise a storm in a teapot. [Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He used to raise a storm in a teapot. [Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The archdiocese also is disappointed that this has taken so long. Obviously, this isn't anything we have any desire to prolong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27390]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.  Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58794]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain you at dawn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10578]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a high-heel fetish. I love really beautiful women's shoes. To me, it's not weird. I can take it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33194]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a high-heel fetish. I love really beautiful women's shoes. To me, it's not weird. I can take it all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had the feeling she was taking a doctor-patient confidentiality role. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36167]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had the feeling she was taking a doctor-patient confidentiality role.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12948]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32066]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunately this game was against Dixie. It wouldn't have meant as much otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunately this game was against Dixie. It wouldn't have meant as much otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am just proud to take over a program with such great tradition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38085]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am just proud to take over a program with such great tradition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28143]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they were made or just happened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood. [Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here and there they are seen swimming in the vast flood. [Lat., Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,  Now in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,  Now in a lily cup, and now   Setting a jacinth bell a-swing,    In his wandering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60887]]></link><description><![CDATA[But shapes that come not at an earthly call, Will not depart when mortal voices bid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know one thing - that Tim Holland led police to the body. I think a lot of information can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29208]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know one thing - that Tim Holland led police to the body. I think a lot of information can be drawn from that fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12133]]></link><description><![CDATA[How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to wear out than to rust out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to wear out than to rust out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm going to play man-to-man, I think. If we play zone, she'll have 50 (points). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41774]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm going to play man-to-man, I think. If we play zone, she'll have 50 (points).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is being married to your best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is being married to your best friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15221]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first - an attempted suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24857]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66905]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is made up of interruptions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is made up of interruptions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   Pain is a kindly, hopeful thing, a certain proof of life, a clear assurance that all is not yet over, that there is still a chance. But if your heart has no pain -- well, that may betoken health, as you suppose: but are you certain that it does not mean that your soul is dead?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43320</guid></item></channel></rss>