<?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[Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20732]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not,  Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear   Your favors nor your hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really get two weeks instead of three (after the dead period). It will be fast and furious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38027]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really get two weeks instead of three (after the dead period). It will be fast and furious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a wreck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46781]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known war as few men now living know it. It's verydestructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known war as few men now living know it. It's verydestructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a meansof settling international disputes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50065]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time out for tack, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time out for tack,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will draw the curtain and show you the picture. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55739]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will draw the curtain and show you the picture. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;  Whom neither hopes deceive, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free;  Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,   But lives at peace, within himself content;    In thought, or act, accountable to none     But to himself, and to the gods alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Northwest does not want a strike and we remain actively engaged at the negotiating table. At the same time, however, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Northwest does not want a strike and we remain actively engaged at the negotiating table. At the same time, however, we have the responsibility to make orderly and timely provisions to minimize confusion and disruptions should a strike occur. We want to keep our passengers fully informed and to assist them with alternative travel arrangements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book is a gift you can open again and again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4489]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book is a gift you can open again and again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to basketball, I've never been nervous in my life. Why start now? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32251]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to basketball, I've never been nervous in my life. Why start now?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19102]]></link><description><![CDATA[You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60279]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universal subjugator, the commonplace. [Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60137]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universal subjugator, the commonplace. [Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had to defend themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41538]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had to defend themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of a new Prince, new bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of a new Prince, new bondage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep,  And good-bye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62121]]></link><description><![CDATA[For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep,  And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25496]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look through gloom and storm-drift Beyond the years:  The soul would have no rainbow   Hard the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58791]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look through gloom and storm-drift Beyond the years:  The soul would have no rainbow   Hard the eyes no tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58183]]></link><description><![CDATA[If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47057]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a mode of being which was purely natural; in other words, each of us also has fallen -- fallen, presumably in ways determined by his natural constitution, yet certainly, as conscience assures us, in ways for which we are morally answerable, and to which, in the moral constitution of the world, consequences attach which we must recognise as our due. They are not only results of our action, but results which that action has merited; and there is no moral hope for us unless we accept them as such.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She can change her Mind like the wind: whatever she has said  Or done, is light to what she'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48756]]></link><description><![CDATA[She can change her Mind like the wind: whatever she has said  Or done, is light to what she'll say or do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed.  You must not dare for shame to talk of mercy;   For your own reasons turn into your bosoms    As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24250]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are seeing a broadening out of the market that we had not seen going from the 9,000 to 10,000 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41884]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are seeing a broadening out of the market that we had not seen going from the 9,000 to 10,000 mark. This is a much more egalitarian market and that's a healthy development. It suggests a more sustainable market over time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're smart in that aspect. We know our spots. We get to where we need to be. We press as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41777]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're smart in that aspect. We know our spots. We get to where we need to be. We press as much as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to be A saint by doing lovely things, or watching late with Thee, Or dreaming in the dawn-light, or storming Heaven's gates, Make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates. Although I must have Martha's hands, I have a Mary mind, And when I black the boots and shoes, Thy sandals, Lord, I find. I think of how they trod the earth, what time I scrub the floor: Accept this meditation, Lord, I haven't time for more. Warm all the kitchen with Thy love, and light it with Thy peace; Forgive me all my worrying, and make my grumbling cease. Thou who didst love to give men food, in room or by the sea, Accept this service that I do -- I do it unto Thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction is the truth inside the lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction is the truth inside the lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You win only if you aren't afraid to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44304]]></link><description><![CDATA[You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theme from here until after Labor Day is going to be more postponements, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35920]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theme from here until after Labor Day is going to be more postponements,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like it's (the violence) all gone if there is not a public announcement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29343]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like it's (the violence) all gone if there is not a public announcement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century   You have no questions to ask of any body, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century   You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you as certainly as He lived in and governed that body and soul which He took from the Virgin Mary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63267]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9776</guid></item></channel></rss>