<?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 world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can accept losing, you can't win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can accept losing, you can't win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale  That's merrier than the nightingale.   - Henry Wadsworth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale  That's merrier than the nightingale.   - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III,),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/402]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59425]]></link><description><![CDATA[In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've gotten to know them on a personal level, and I don't have to teach as much. They know what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've gotten to know them on a personal level, and I don't have to teach as much. They know what to expect from me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61330]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44164]]></link><description><![CDATA[To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11519]]></link><description><![CDATA[What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that a lot of gay people feel like if you're openly gay, by doing so you're sacrificing being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28365]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that a lot of gay people feel like if you're openly gay, by doing so you're sacrificing being any kind of public figure on Howard's campus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47122]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cleere conscience is a sure carde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9803]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cleere conscience is a sure carde.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her reasoning is it was an accident from day one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide?  Years have not seen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide?  Years have not seen, Time shall not see   The hour that tears my soul from thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2761]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the best,   With silken coats and caps and golden rings,    With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things;     With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry,      With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great River Relay is a team event. Members will decorate vans, wear costumes and invent original names. For many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Great River Relay is a team event. Members will decorate vans, wear costumes and invent original names. For many of them, partying with teammates will be as memorable a part of the race as crossing the finish line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18937]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time -- pills or stairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, he's a wonderful son-in-law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, he's a wonderful son-in-law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young's Farm . . . was always a special place. It is a very unique property. We really felt an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young's Farm . . . was always a special place. It is a very unique property. We really felt an obligation and an opportunity to do something special up there and continue the legacy of the land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23419]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26114]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22140]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49345]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It did a great deal of good, physically and mentally for me. I felt fresh out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It did a great deal of good, physically and mentally for me. I felt fresh out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5265]]></link><description><![CDATA[My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55378]]></link><description><![CDATA[This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have all types, and we have all ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have all types, and we have all ages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, Cutting through the jungle with a golden track.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22142]]></link><description><![CDATA[One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very sound or the very foolish imagine otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I want to hear is he is alive, but they can't tell me that. He's worked in this mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40940]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I want to hear is he is alive, but they can't tell me that. He's worked in this mine for six years. He said that's the way he's gonna go -- in the mines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59077]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better your room than your company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better your room than your company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it. -ALBERT SCHWEITZER.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550  Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to site thn it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47255</guid></item></channel></rss>