<?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 essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37165]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak And stared with his foot on the prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to have support like that. Being far from home, it's good to have people supporting you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to have support like that. Being far from home, it's good to have people supporting you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June:  And, though perhaps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56247]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June:  And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold,   A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is but a flower, Which wrinkles will devour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the road, the lonely road, Under the cold, white moon;  Under the rugged trees he strode,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43075]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the road, the lonely road, Under the cold, white moon;  Under the rugged trees he strode,   Whistled and shifted his heavy load--    Whistled a foolish tune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time Brings in his revenges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the whirligig of time Brings in his revenges.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is really like a lab experiment in the real world. This is an attempt to understand how hydrogen-power vehicles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37325]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is really like a lab experiment in the real world. This is an attempt to understand how hydrogen-power vehicles refuel and work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is like a wolf: it only destroys those who fear it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that tells a secret is anothers servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49403]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that tells a secret is anothers servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic virtue worth,   Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge,    Fresh from St. Andrew's College,     Should nail the conscious needle to the north?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we touch.I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we touch.I promise you love. Time will not take that away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23497]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, we're letting our fan club pick a third of our set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, we're letting our fan club pick a third of our set.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there was one thing all the losses in her life had taught her it was that life was short, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66100]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there was one thing all the losses in her life had taught her it was that life was short, fleeting, and way too precious to waste waiting around for happiness to hit you over the head and make itself known. Happiness wasn't something you found, happiness was something you made - by living in the moment, by cherishing the people in your life right now, by finding the courage to change those things you didn't like]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  The great danger facing all of us... is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089  The great danger facing all of us... is not that we shall make an absolute failure of life, nor that we shall fall into outright viciousness, nor that we shall be terribly unhappy, nor that we shall feel [that] life has no meaning at all -- not these things. The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to tender the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God -- and be content to have it so -- that is the danger: that some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with husks and trappings of life and have really missed life itself. For life without God, to one who has known the richness and joy of life with Him, is unthinkable, impossible. That is what one prays one's friends may be spared -- satisfaction with a life that falls short of the best, that has in it no tingle or thrill that comes from a friendship with the Father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43664]]></link><description><![CDATA[File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It snows at sea.. quiet.... falls in flakes * melting designs**leave form for All. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5554]]></link><description><![CDATA[It snows at sea.. quiet.... falls in flakes * melting designs**leave form for All.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only wealth is life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only wealth is life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14723]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15298]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beginning a short series of verse on Christ:   ... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beginning a short series of verse on Christ:   ... They haled him, trembling, to the Judgement Seat.  "O Lord, behold the man who made the nails that pierced Thy feet!"  The Master laid a thin, scarred hand upon the shame-bowed head.  "They were good nails," he said...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60066]]></link><description><![CDATA[To teach is to understand. To learn is wisdom. To learn together is understanding wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep;  Her march is o'er the mountain wave,   Her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep;  Her march is o'er the mountain wave,   Her home is on the deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55892]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I 'll not march through Coventry with them, that 's flat: nay, and the villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of prison. There 's but a shirt and a half in all my company; and the half-shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like an herald's coat without sleeves. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59289]]></link><description><![CDATA[To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are expecting that, come tomorrow, they'll be arriving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28716]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are expecting that, come tomorrow, they'll be arriving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66033]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid waste ordinances say put bulky items in the alley and we'll come pick it up. We say if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid waste ordinances say put bulky items in the alley and we'll come pick it up. We say if you put bulky items in the alley, you'll get a letter and a citation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10378]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63255]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63255</guid></item></channel></rss>