<?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[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25338]]></link><description><![CDATA[We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd  In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd  In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way,   And giv'st access, though secret she retire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time,  Will one day end it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time,  Will one day end it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the best possible time for big companies to go after online opportunities, ... This is also the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41416]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the best possible time for big companies to go after online opportunities, ... This is also the best possible time to start a company, if you're willing to build for the long-term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64663]]></link><description><![CDATA[By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no transforming of darkness into light andof apathy into movement without emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no transforming of darkness into light andof apathy into movement without emotion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22412]]></link><description><![CDATA[A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1717]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance favors the prepared mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance favors the prepared mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44541]]></link><description><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51947]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man,--whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn,--  Man's inhumanity to man   Makes countless thousands mourn! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man,--whose heaven-erected face The smiles of love adorn,--  Man's inhumanity to man   Makes countless thousands mourn!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no judgements where you have no compassion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no judgements where you have no compassion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom rings where opinions clash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom rings where opinions clash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27422]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   Faith is rest, not toil. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the truth so long rejected, that God is not waiting for any such inducements, but loves and pardons of His own goodwill, and is showing that goodwill to any sinner who will come to Him on such a footing, casting away his own poor performances or goodnesses, and relying implicitly upon the free love of Him who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22360]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3700]]></link><description><![CDATA[More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3399]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite than a farmer who in conducting his team.   - Isaac D'Israeli,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dual-sided thing. As much as we knew in our dugout that we could come back against East Carolina, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34471]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dual-sided thing. As much as we knew in our dugout that we could come back against East Carolina, they knew it too. Maybe we didn't do it all by ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not the time to take our time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64203]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not the time to take our time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37880]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will definitely look at it through our office of seafood and determine whether there is something that requires further ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32903]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will definitely look at it through our office of seafood and determine whether there is something that requires further pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the stored vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20901]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the stored vengeances of heaven fall On her ingrateful top!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life so short, the craft so long to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life so short, the craft so long to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged,  As wise philosophers have judged, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19715]]></link><description><![CDATA[As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honour's lodged,  As wise philosophers have judged,   Because a kick in that place more    Hurts honour than deep wounds before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is insolent, and will be fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you;  Wherever you stay, wherever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you;  Wherever you stay, wherever you go,   May the beautiful palms of Allah grow;    Through days of labor, and nights of rest,     The love of Good Allah make you blest;      So I touch my heart--as the Easterners do,       May the peace of Allah abide with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21464]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.   - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58530]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.   - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20660]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the reason she's done so many of these films is because the '50s is such a rich era ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the reason she's done so many of these films is because the '50s is such a rich era for describing the journey of a woman,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44644]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19264]]></link><description><![CDATA[What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah, they have all the necessary leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19264</guid></item></channel></rss>