<?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[Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? Three angels gave me at once a kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence that three-cornered smile of bliss? Three angels gave me at once a kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24524]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force;  With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent,   For Whigs allow no force but argument.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62111]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that well his warke beginneth The rather a good ende he winneth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin with another's to end with your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin with another's to end with your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find, The error of our eye directs our mind.  What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find, The error of our eye directs our mind.  What error leads must error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44617]]></link><description><![CDATA[A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that Aberdeen Airport will do everything possible to be a good neighbour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30545]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that Aberdeen Airport will do everything possible to be a good neighbour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27315]]></link><description><![CDATA[While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the symbol of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the symbol of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A favorite has no friend! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1304]]></link><description><![CDATA[A favorite has no friend!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,  Red with uncommon wrath, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,  Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man   Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For evil news rides post, while good news baits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44463]]></link><description><![CDATA[For evil news rides post, while good news baits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long arm of coincidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8704]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long arm of coincidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11329]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,  The lark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,  The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking--   Kathleen Mavourneen, what, slumbering, still?    Oh hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever?     Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part?      It may be for years and it may be forever;       Oh why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. [Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms. [Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem  Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53910]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And be the Spartan's epitaph on me-- "Sparta hath many a worthier son than he." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14089]]></link><description><![CDATA[And be the Spartan's epitaph on me-- "Sparta hath many a worthier son than he."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee?  Fed with nourishment divine,   The dewy morning's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee?  Fed with nourishment divine,   The dewy morning's gentle wine!    Nature waits upon thee still,     And thy verdant cup does fill;      'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread,       Nature's self's thy Ganymede.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conform and be dull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conform and be dull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story - which the paper had already inexplicably held ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story - which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year - because he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker. He insists he had 'legal authority derived from the Constitution and congressional resolution authorizing force.' But the Constitution explicitly requires the president to obey the law. And the post 9/11 congressional resolution authorizing 'all necessary force' in fighting terrorism was made in clear reference to military intervention. It did not scrap the Constitution and allow the president to do whatever he pleased in any area in the name of fighting terrorism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Maoists used to attack in remote areas and district headquarters and now they are targeting urban areas as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Maoists used to attack in remote areas and district headquarters and now they are targeting urban areas as they had made it clear that they will focus on disrupting the local polls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60724]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just think of me and I will be there ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just think of me and I will be there]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27804]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43369]]></link><description><![CDATA[The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.) Lord, I am glad for the great gift of living, Glad for Thy days of sun and of rain; Grateful for joy, with an endless thanksgiving, Grateful for laughter -- and grateful for pain. Lord, I am glad for the young April's wonder, Glad for the fulness of long summer days; And now when the spring and my heart are asunder, Lord, I give thanks for the dark autumn ways. Sun, bloom, and blossom, O Lord, I remember, The dream of the spring and its joy I recall; But now in the silence and pain of November, Lord, I give thanks to Thee, Giver of all!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no way to plug the leak. The driver tried, but he got soaked in gas and had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35566]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no way to plug the leak. The driver tried, but he got soaked in gas and had to be treated in the ambulance,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012  Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55311]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17371]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2717]]></link><description><![CDATA[A painted vest Prince Voltiger had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52875]]></link><description><![CDATA[A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.   - Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.   - Robert H. Newell (used pseudonym Orpheus C. Kerr),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven  Fires all the faculties with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven  Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jake is a 100-yard threat running the ball, he's a good thrower and he has a great understanding of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jake is a 100-yard threat running the ball, he's a good thrower and he has a great understanding of our offense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42573]]></link><description><![CDATA[They appeal to people who want something that's going to last and survive the elements and at the same time make a strong fashion statement when paired with jeans or a skirt. They're not for the shy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42573</guid></item></channel></rss>