<?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[But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25847]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men still seek Him today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men still seek Him today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which is worse? the wolf who cries beforeeating the lamb or the wolf who does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing adventured, nothing attained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does seem as if she's gravitated to the more mainstream causes. These are easy, and from a political standpoint, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33043]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does seem as if she's gravitated to the more mainstream causes. These are easy, and from a political standpoint, no-brainers. While the families of people with mental illnesses are voters, many people with mental illnesses are not. That's not the same for people with cancer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low and behold, the Lord sent someone my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Low and behold, the Lord sent someone my way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and shuffle the cards. [Sp., Paciencia y barajar.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44932]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6174]]></link><description><![CDATA[He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew's daughter; and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's braggin about his new Jordan'sThe baby just ran out of milkHe's buyin gold every two weeksThe baby just ran ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52970]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's braggin about his new Jordan'sThe baby just ran out of milkHe's buyin gold every two weeksThe baby just ran out of PampersHe's buyin clothes for his new girland the baby just ran out of medicineYou ask for money for the baby?The daddy just ran out the doorGIRL! I can't believe him(I can..)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63281]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27163]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   O God, Who hast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   O God, Who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired, should be sought by labor, and Who, by Thy blessing, bringest honest labor to good effect; look with mercy upon my studies and endeavors. Grant me, O Lord, to design only what is lawful and right, and afford me calmness of mind, and steadiness of purpose, that I may so do Thy will in this short life, as to obtain happiness in the world to come, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8207</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/11168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we were quick on defense, but they needed to be game-tested. We needed to see if they'd hit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we were quick on defense, but they needed to be game-tested. We needed to see if they'd hit somebody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37952]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenerynever changes. (Perhaps Cy Burnett).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14447]]></link><description><![CDATA[What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54062]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will  To take the indisposed and sickly fit  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12499]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will  To take the indisposed and sickly fit   For the sound man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather put my 10 bucks into the community than put it into Wal-Mart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather put my 10 bucks into the community than put it into Wal-Mart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13429]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't expect any major surprises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41951]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't expect any major surprises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29138]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that the huge changes right after September 11, like the National Guard at the airport, have been cut back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live an idle burden to the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20335]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live an idle burden to the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280  If He hath promised to make us happy, though He hath not particularly declared to us wherein this happiness shall consist, yet we may trust Him that made us, to find out ways to make us happy, and may believe that He who made us, without our knowledge or desire, is able to make us happy beyond them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance. But the spirit of prayer is for all times and occasions; it is a lamp that is to be always burning, a light to be ever shining: everything calls for it; everything is to be done in it and governed by it, because it is and means and wills nothing else but the totality of the soul -- not doing this or that, but wholly ... given up to God to be where and what and how He pleases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real war will never get in the books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real war will never get in the books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is a cruelty To load a falling man. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56059]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is a cruelty To load a falling man. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23208]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. -Twelfth Night. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived.You can close your eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11150]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived.You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,or you can be full of the love you shared.You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.You can remember her only that she is gone,or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back.Or you can do what she'd want:smile, open your eyes, love and go on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is your standard bulb. I can plug in the energy saving bulb that's equal to the incandescent bulb as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31360]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is your standard bulb. I can plug in the energy saving bulb that's equal to the incandescent bulb as you can see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4771]]></link><description><![CDATA[By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15588]]></link><description><![CDATA[As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30029]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the everyday lives. . . . With the older generation it's more foreign to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48017]]></link><description><![CDATA[And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48017</guid></item></channel></rss>