<?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[Hee that lives ill, feare followes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49465</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[I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44590]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Delay did bugs exterminatebefore he did kid soldiers terminate.Kissinger's Bremer has not been forthrightabout how many died in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom Delay did bugs exterminatebefore he did kid soldiers terminate.Kissinger's Bremer has not been forthrightabout how many died in the last fortnight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's strawberries are another man's hives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46865]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's strawberries are another man's hives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63348]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2139]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always hope. So far we've been OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always hope. So far we've been OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests  Are often welcomest when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18431]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests  Are often welcomest when they are gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first two months I imagined Godzilla, ... Then I got bored of that and I imagined different things. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36260]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first two months I imagined Godzilla, ... Then I got bored of that and I imagined different things. What if my agent was that big? What if my dog was that big?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Lady of the Snows. [Lat., Notre Dames des Neiges.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Lady of the Snows. [Lat., Notre Dames des Neiges.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   A man's personality actuates and quickens his whole body. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373   A man's personality actuates and quickens his whole body. If anyone said it was unsuitable for the man's power to be in the toe, he would be thought silly, because, while granting that a man penetrates and actuates the whole of his body, he denied his presence in the part. Similarly, no one who admits the presence of the Word of God in the universe as a whole should think it unsuitable for a single human body to be by Him actuated and enlightened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48156]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is grievous to be caught. [Lat., Deprendi miserum est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10660]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is grievous to be caught. [Lat., Deprendi miserum est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no road of flowers leading to glory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no road of flowers leading to glory]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to end up with a situation where we both have a very stringent self-regulatory regime, [but then] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32871]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to end up with a situation where we both have a very stringent self-regulatory regime, [but then] we have to answer to their data privacy regime as well. The devil is in the details, and it's up to them to provide those details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings. Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events. They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8347]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4596]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion is the genesis of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion is the genesis of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's a very solid and deep draft. I really think the top of it is very interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's a very solid and deep draft. I really think the top of it is very interesting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the Fed is telling us here is that they are not of the mind to put so much tightness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34708]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the Fed is telling us here is that they are not of the mind to put so much tightness on the economy as to jeopardize modest growth in the year ahead, and the market is taking great delight in that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1401]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22819]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See! There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57132]]></link><description><![CDATA[See! There is Jackson standing like a stone wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest. [Lat., Colubram sustulit  Sinuque fovet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23758]]></link><description><![CDATA[He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest. [Lat., Colubram sustulit  Sinuque fovet, contra se ipse misericors.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3370]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule,   His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.    Supreme he sits; before the awful frown     That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down;      Not more submissive Israel heard and saw       At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song;  I hear it in the opening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song;  I hear it in the opening year,   I listen, and it cheers me long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall--am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11145]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3901</guid></item></channel></rss>