<?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[Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22564</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[When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9484]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day,  Shall fold their tents, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44530]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day,  Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,   And as silently steal away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,  For daws to peck at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51435]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve,  For daws to peck at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. -Betty Friedan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves. -Betty Friedan.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14412]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18199]]></link><description><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   There lies a lonely grave;    But no man built that sepulcher,     And no man saw it e'er,      For the angels of God upturned the sod       And laid the dead man there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. -Rabindranath Tagore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12244]]></link><description><![CDATA[At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. -Golda Meir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two is extremely, extremely complicated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's the right guy for the right moment, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38832]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's the right guy for the right moment,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.  Majestic silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3023]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.  Majestic silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am concerned because even in the past two years that were the jubilee years, I have seen evident signs which show that the people are still in great difficulties, and there are things that still need to be remedied and looked after in many areas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54904]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44647]]></link><description><![CDATA[A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned  Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20912]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned  Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom   Of himn gave fire to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe he made the decisions taking full responsibility and with faith in his own way [of doing things]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe he made the decisions taking full responsibility and with faith in his own way [of doing things].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57751]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1321]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62528]]></link><description><![CDATA[People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plough the sand on the sea shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50530]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plough the sand on the sea shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2479]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came with the Conqueror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a game only saints playKabir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is a game only saints playKabir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wicked flee when no man pursueth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wicked flee when no man pursueth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ThatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s a critical time in kidsÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ lives when they need discipline, and he had it. And he had school spirit. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31632]]></link><description><![CDATA[ThatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s a critical time in kidsÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ lives when they need discipline, and he had it. And he had school spirit. Back then, you were proud to represent your team and your city and your school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think the juggernaut will just roll on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31686]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think the juggernaut will just roll on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. [Lat., Cignoni non sine causa Apoloni dicata sint, quod ab eo divinationem habere videantur, qua providentes quid in morte boni sit, cum cantu et voluptate moriantur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11974]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every madman thinks all other men mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every madman thinks all other men mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; wherever it is forgotten that we are chosen in order to be sent; wherever the minds of believers are concerned more to probe backwards from their election into the reasons for it in the secret counsel of God, than to press forward from their election to the purpose of it, ... that they should be Christ's ambassadors and witnesses to the ends of the earth, wherever men think that the purpose of election is their own salvation rather than the salvation of the world: then God's people have betrayed their trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are like Slinkies - not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are like Slinkies - not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43166]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50050</guid></item></channel></rss>