<?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[Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17519]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answer that most people would: nuclear war, global warming and Windows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be a fundraiser for victims of land mines, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34806]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a fundraiser for victims of land mines,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61878]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49313]]></link><description><![CDATA[He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we'd be decent. But we've been better than I thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32829]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we'd be decent. But we've been better than I thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44761]]></link><description><![CDATA[As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9725]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20811]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all goodthings toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all goodthings toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others.Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietlyalert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally andeffortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.   - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe Robert who has tried it. [Lat., Experto crede Roberto.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe Robert who has tried it. [Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One foot in the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18202]]></link><description><![CDATA[One foot in the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scared out of his seven senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scared out of his seven senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach me to feel another's woe,  To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach me to feel another's woe,  To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show,  That mercy show to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not swear at all; Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,  Which is the god of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not swear at all; Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,  Which is the god of my idolatry,   And I'll believe thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16334]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not have information on what is put in canned light tuna. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32902]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not have information on what is put in canned light tuna.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer  In the earthen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48069]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished that the flaws were fewer  In the earthen vessel, holding treasure,   But the main thing is, does it hold good measure    Heaven soon sets right all other matters!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waiting are they? Well let'em wait! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waiting are they? Well let'em wait!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not our job to go and participate in this campaign. They're trying to sell the voters on something. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37884]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not our job to go and participate in this campaign. They're trying to sell the voters on something. We didn't know if we would oppose the bond or not. We actually conversed with doctor (Stan) Olson and toured twelve of the schools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17993]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an enjoyable experience to make a difference, ... They [volunteers] are actually getting dirty. They're using their hearts, their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an enjoyable experience to make a difference, ... They [volunteers] are actually getting dirty. They're using their hearts, their hands and their heads to make a difference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  It frequently happens that the value of a thing lies in the fact that someone has possessed it. A very ordinary thing acquires a new value, if it has been possessed by some famous person. In any museum we will find quite ordinary things--clothes, a walking-stick, a pen, pieces of furniture--which are only of value because they were possessed and used by some great person. It is the ownership which gives them worth. It is so with the Christian. The Christian may be a very ordinary person, but he acquires a new value and dignity and greatness because he belongs to God. The greatness of the Christian lies in the fact that he is God's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4963]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; Though he spare it, and forsake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:  Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9502]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63580]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise,  For if you do but taste his blood,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61672]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise,  For if you do but taste his blood,   'Twill make your courage rise,    Twill make a man forget his wo;     'Twill heighten all his joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only stayed there for one year though, because I got homesick, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39064]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only stayed there for one year though, because I got homesick,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence may set fire to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence may set fire to reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37981]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body that I wanted to use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50994]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50686]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are necessary to life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are necessary to life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa's bowling attack has been exposed as being toothless, and it certainly lacks a cutting edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38995]]></link><description><![CDATA[South Africa's bowling attack has been exposed as being toothless, and it certainly lacks a cutting edge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What have they done to you my poor child? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27968]]></link><description><![CDATA[What have they done to you my poor child?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search  Of foreign words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/668]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search  Of foreign words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the most loyal player money can buy. (Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the most loyal player money can buy. (Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics and California Angels)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thought that was popular or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52176]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thought that was popular or authoritative in his time, we must never rule out the possibility that what we have discovered is not the limit of his vision but only an example of his deliberate rhetorical accommodation to reigning prejudice which he does not share but thinks it best not to expose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8743</guid></item></channel></rss>