<?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[Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round,  And whom both Poles of heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round,  And whom both Poles of heaven once saw   Which North and South do bound,    The stars above would make thee known,     If men here silent were;      The sun himself cannot forget       His fellow traveller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is big news. People sort-of thought it was inevitable, but it's still come sooner than many expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32939]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is big news. People sort-of thought it was inevitable, but it's still come sooner than many expected.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951  One can give without loving, but one cannot love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951  One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Johnson has] been a visionary, ... Wherever he goes, success follows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28637]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Johnson has] been a visionary, ... Wherever he goes, success follows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear and forbear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear and forbear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19038]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do we make it through this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33210]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do we make it through this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee;  He worked and sang, from morn to night; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9935]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee;  He worked and sang, from morn to night;   No lark so blithe as he.    And this the burden of his song,     Forever used to be,--      "I care for nobody, not I,       If no one cares for me."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action hasunderstanding among men and discipline in all action he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who sees action in inaction and inaction in action hasunderstanding among men and discipline in all action he performs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is now at hand and happy shall they who persevere in the good they have begun. I hasten to go to our Lord, to whose grace I recommend you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense of tranquility which religion fails to bestow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2715]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense of tranquility which religion fails to bestow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21135]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53132]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;  He could distinguish, and divide   A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10727]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;  He could distinguish, and divide   A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23493]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2214]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's beautiful when two strangers become best friends, it's terribly depressing when two best friends become strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63105]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's beautiful when two strangers become best friends, it's terribly depressing when two best friends become strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mockery king of snow. -King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55828]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mockery king of snow. -King Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48776]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25751]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody.'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The hand that rocks the cradle"--but there is no such hand. It is bad to rock the baby, they would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3632]]></link><description><![CDATA["The hand that rocks the cradle"--but there is no such hand. It is bad to rock the baby, they would have us understand;  So the cradle's but a relic of the former foolish days,   When mothers reared their children in unscientific ways;    When they jounced them and they bounced them, those poor dwarfs of long ago--     The Washingtons and Jeffersons, you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace with a club in hand is war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace with a club in hand is war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law itself follows gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law itself follows gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale,  And nightly to the listening earth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale,  And nightly to the listening earth   Repeats the story of her birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mill cannot grind with water that's past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mill cannot grind with water that's past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64421]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With bag and baggage. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55665]]></link><description><![CDATA[With bag and baggage. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was totally bewildered. It wasn't easy for him. He had the hardest time of the bunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35251]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was totally bewildered. It wasn't easy for him. He had the hardest time of the bunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Willowes are weak, yet they bind other wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26398]]></link><description><![CDATA[What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This insensibility of ours is a bad symptom. For one thing, it implies that we have no spiritual ambition, else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7852]]></link><description><![CDATA[This insensibility of ours is a bad symptom. For one thing, it implies that we have no spiritual ambition, else we should not be satisfied with such poor lives; that we cannot have thought out the fact of Jesus Christ, and how immeasurably He has raised the standard. Will you hang your wretched daubs beside the works of Titian and Michelangelo and not be shamed by the enormous contrast -- stand back and say, with a satisfied smirk, "That is pretty good, you know!"? And can you live face to face with Jesus Christ, and be content with what you are?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10678</guid></item></channel></rss>