<?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[Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty soon we're going home to a lot of bad things, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty soon we're going home to a lot of bad things,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52760]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Economists are expecting a gradual slowdown in economic growth paired with a slowdown in inflation. That will allow the Federal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Economists are expecting a gradual slowdown in economic growth paired with a slowdown in inflation. That will allow the Federal Reserve to wind up its rate-hiking campaign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--  Not shrink and let the shaft ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--  Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast   To pierce another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things have changed throughout the state and a lot of farmers now have off-farm income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things have changed throughout the state and a lot of farmers now have off-farm income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48225]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66722]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don\'t back down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  When we say that the Scriptures are plain to all capacities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100  When we say that the Scriptures are plain to all capacities in all things necessary, we mean that any man of ordinary capacity, by his own diligence and care, in conjunction with the helps and advantages which God hath appointed, and in the due use of them, may attain to the knowledge of everything necessary to his salvation; and that there is no book in the world more plain and better fitted to teach a man any art or science than the Bible is to direct and instruct men in the way to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes;  Their white is stays for ever,   Their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3852]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes;  Their white is stays for ever,   Their red it never dies;    But Phyllida, my Phillida!     Her colour comes and goes;      It trembles to a lily,--       It wavers to a rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26448]]></link><description><![CDATA[A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62874]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot know wine by the barrell. [You cannot know the wine by the barrel.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50131]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot know wine by the barrell. [You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25787]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That just gives [Jamestown] confidence. That's a big part of what's going on. This team, three games ago, had 20 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32144]]></link><description><![CDATA[That just gives [Jamestown] confidence. That's a big part of what's going on. This team, three games ago, had 20 hits against the University of Mary, so it's capable of doing it. Right now our confidence is just lacking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't talk to me about atrocities in war; all war is an atrocity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,  The younger disease, that must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12494]]></link><description><![CDATA[As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,  The younger disease, that must subdue at length,   Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be read in the spirit in which it was written. We must rather seek for what is profitable in Scripture, than for what ministereth to subtlety in discourse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."  "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig   And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig."    "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig,     And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48776]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life Prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  Let a clergyman but intend to please ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928  Let a clergyman but intend to please God in all his actions, as the happiest and best thing in the world, and then he will know that there is nothing noble in a clergyman but a burning zeal for the salvation of souls; nor anything poorer in his profession [than] idleness and a worldly spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are only as loyal as their options. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are only as loyal as their options.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25110]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC) -I Ching (B.C.1150?).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5542]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45573]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really proud of our basketball team tonight. After getting beat like we did on Saturday, to come back tonight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37926]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really proud of our basketball team tonight. After getting beat like we did on Saturday, to come back tonight with the focus and intensity that we needed to was really big for us ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ I'm excited for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows--  The best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows--  The best I had, a princess wrought it me--   And I did never ask it you again;    And with my hand at midnight held your head,     And like the watchful minutes to the hour,      Still and anon cheered up the heavy time,       Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it serve for table-talk. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it serve for table-talk. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10068</guid></item></channel></rss>