<?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[Heaven means to be one with God.   - Confucius, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven means to be one with God.   - Confucius,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tolerate, change, or be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tolerate, change, or be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others ... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23917</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[It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/887]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's in His Heaven-- All's right with the world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48680]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's in His Heaven-- All's right with the world!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped--to gird An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne  Whereon he sits! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to the crown by Freedom shaped--to gird An English sovereign's brow! and to the throne  Whereon he sits! whose deep foundations lie   In veneration and the people's love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth and History involve nothing more than convincing the masses that you are right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair insect! that, with threadlike legs spread out, And blood-extracting bill and filmy wing,  Dost murmur, as thou slowly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair insect! that, with threadlike legs spread out, And blood-extracting bill and filmy wing,  Dost murmur, as thou slowly sail'st about,   In pitiless ears full many a plaintive thing,    And tell how little our large veins would bleed,     Would we but yield them to thy bitter need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't bring back the past. It's gone. All you can do is let go, move on, and make better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62904]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't bring back the past. It's gone. All you can do is let go, move on, and make better memories for the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48064]]></link><description><![CDATA[No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9108]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man perfect to the finger tips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50179]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man perfect to the finger tips.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2960]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go out and do our best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29271]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go out and do our best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in these useless and superfluous things that I am rich and happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35988]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on schedule to close the transaction by the end of the first quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doubtful matters boldness is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51616]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doubtful matters boldness is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have here is a bright, talented and ambitious group of players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37911]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have here is a bright, talented and ambitious group of players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are things to learn in the reviews of how primary schools and nurseries alert parents of child absences. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34776]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are things to learn in the reviews of how primary schools and nurseries alert parents of child absences. That is on-going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15820]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love your friend with his faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love your friend with his faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically I'm pleased the towns have decided to participate in the project, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically I'm pleased the towns have decided to participate in the project,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31821</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[Amazingly, given that this was a very intense fire and a large fire and that you're talking about senior citizens, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amazingly, given that this was a very intense fire and a large fire and that you're talking about senior citizens, everyone self-evacuated except for one woman the police escorted out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2408]]></link><description><![CDATA[When asked what State he hails from, Our sole reply shall be,  He comes from Appomattox   And its famous apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd been playing a lot lately and there was nothing on the line. It was kind of a practice round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30430]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd been playing a lot lately and there was nothing on the line. It was kind of a practice round and the kids had more of a free-swinging attitude. Some guys ballooned up a little and some played well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was prepared to go to Norfolk when the phone call came. It changed my day. I just got on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was prepared to go to Norfolk when the phone call came. It changed my day. I just got on a different plane at the airport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin;  And therefore no true saint allows,   They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26557]]></link><description><![CDATA['Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin;  And therefore no true saint allows,   They shall be suffer'd to espouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20131]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to his bosom? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to his bosom?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joe had the opportunity to wrestle at 189, but for the sake of the team he wrestled at 215 so a teammate could wrestle in the region. He could have had an easier time qualifying for the state at 189, but you have to admire someone who puts their teammates first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll,  The loud winds, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll,  The loud winds, that o'er the billows sweep--   Shake the firm nerve, appal the bravest soul!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no means that exempt us from the task and duty of joining our own best endeavors. The original stock, or wild olive tree, of our natural powers, was not given to us to be burnt or blighted, but to be grafted on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mural was going through some tough times and the Art Guild actually thought about just letting it go. Mural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mural was going through some tough times and the Art Guild actually thought about just letting it go. Mural Preservation Inc. was formed then and has a single purpose of maintaining the mural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29560</guid></item></channel></rss>