<?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[Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard work has a future. Laziness pays off now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard work has a future. Laziness pays off now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/273]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23415]]></link><description><![CDATA[And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither company has a strong interest in seeing this resolved in the court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither company has a strong interest in seeing this resolved in the court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a roomalone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21686]]></link><description><![CDATA[All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a roomalone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a really classic Northwest way to ring in the New Year, that's for sure. If the weather is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32519]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a really classic Northwest way to ring in the New Year, that's for sure. If the weather is good, it's going to be great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53337]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22991]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?  The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14972]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine?  The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?--   They sought a faith's pure shrine!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is little evidence that mandatory emissions caps actually work. For example, since signing the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36324]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is little evidence that mandatory emissions caps actually work. For example, since signing the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, which mandates the reduction of carbon emissions, both Canada and Greece have seen a nearly 25 percent increase in emissions. According to the European Environment Agency, 13 EU nations that signed onto the Kyoto Protocol are on track to miss their 2010 emissions targets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53285]]></link><description><![CDATA[I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have but fed on the roses, and lain in the lilies of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51727]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have but fed on the roses, and lain in the lilies of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus God's children are immorall whiles their Father hath anything for them to do on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200   It was my generation, and the generation that preceded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200   It was my generation, and the generation that preceded me, that forgot. The younger generation is not primarily to be blamed. Those who are struggling today, those who are far away and doing that which is completely contrary to the Christian conscience, are not first to be blamed. It is my generation, and the generation that preceded me, who turned away. Today we are left, not only with a religion and a church without meaning, but... with a culture without meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25376]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well has the name of Pontifex been given Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder  And architect of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well has the name of Pontifex been given Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder  And architect of the invisible bridge   That leads from earth to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why;  It is the one great woe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25618]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why;  It is the one great woe of life   To feel all feeling die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [Lat., Aequum est  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16505]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [Lat., Aequum est  Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11742]]></link><description><![CDATA[If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23342]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23381]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main thing is you just want to stay out of everybody's way, just don't want to interrupt anything. More ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main thing is you just want to stay out of everybody's way, just don't want to interrupt anything. More than anything, you just want to observe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes your heart beat, ... We love to blow the walls out ... Of all the guys who started ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29293]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes your heart beat, ... We love to blow the walls out ... Of all the guys who started out at Sun, we are one of the few rock 'n' roll groups left. We're survivors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two voices are there; one is of the sea, One of the mountains: each a mighty Voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45866]]></link><description><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56460]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts of men,   And bring them back to heaven again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,  More pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10455]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,  More pangs and fears than wars or women have;   And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,    Never to hope again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last of our enemies is laid low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last of our enemies is laid low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56815]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not always measured in smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not always measured in smiles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hizbullah is not a militia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hizbullah is not a militia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47273]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not  I've tried, alas! its power to prove,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/162]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not  I've tried, alas! its power to prove,   But thou art not forgot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/162</guid></item></channel></rss>