<?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 life so short, the crafts so long to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2606]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46067]]></link><description><![CDATA[No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again  Thinking of thee, still thee, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/153]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again  Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,   And memory, like a drop that, night and day,    Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18479]]></link><description><![CDATA[But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much  That I myself was to myself not mine,   Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n    Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea     Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,      And salt too little which may season give       To her foul tainted flesh!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. -Twelfth Night. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55738]]></link><description><![CDATA[One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They stay in their homes, ... There is a lot of suspicion. Fifty percent of the children that were held ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40838]]></link><description><![CDATA[They stay in their homes, ... There is a lot of suspicion. Fifty percent of the children that were held hostage did not return to school after the attack. Parents and children are fearful and mistrustful about school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away,  But wait, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58896]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away,  But wait, my friend, for a different day;   Wait till you want to want to!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing  Memory and desire, stirring   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2981]]></link><description><![CDATA[April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing  Memory and desire, stirring   Dull roots with spring rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26721]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies   That keep her from her rest.    (Macbeth:) Cure her of that!     Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,      Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow,       Raze out the written troubles of the brain,        And with some sweet oblivious antidote         Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff          Which weighs upon the heart?           (Doctor:) Therein the patient            Must minister to himself.             (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17449</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[What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47331]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you listen to the politicians, you might think we are all terrorists ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58966]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you listen to the politicians, you might think we are all terrorists]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11231]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58907]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45515]]></link><description><![CDATA[A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. -Bill Vaughan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9316]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1834]]></link><description><![CDATA[To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one loves the man whom he fears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15493]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one loves the man whom he fears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62815]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65303]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. [Ger., Der Sturm ist Meister; Wind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows. [Ger., Der Sturm ist Meister; Wind und Well spielen  Ball mit dem Menschen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59495]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18410]]></link><description><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61438]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention and a general fond regard to God, which I may call an actual presence of God -- or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with God, which often causes in me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great, that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and to prevent their appearance to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simple act of caring is heroic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple act of caring is heroic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60178]]></link><description><![CDATA[We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60135]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy mandoes not get much further.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the weakest is thrust to the wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the weakest is thrust to the wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne  Lead gradual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne  Lead gradual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is halfe spent before we know what it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34484]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12741</guid></item></channel></rss>