<?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[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over his patient, then and not till then to send for the minister, not so much to inquire into the man's condition and to give him suitable advice as to minister comfort and to speak peace to him at a venture. But let me tell you that herein you put an extremely difficult task upon us, in expecting that we should pour wine and oil into the wound before it be searched, and speak smooth and comfortable things to a man that is but just brought to a sense of the long course of a lewd and wicked life impenitently continued in. Alas! what comfort can we give to men in such a case? We are loth to drive them to despair; and yet we must not destroy them by presumption; pity and good nature do strongly tempt us to make the best of their case and to give them all the little hopes which with any kind of reason we can --and God knows it is but very little that we can give to such persons upon good ground, for it all depends upon the degree and sincerity of their repentance, which God only knows, and we can but guess at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shedits blood?How can we pray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27370]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shedits blood?How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy?Nobel laureate in literature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness, Or other interesting beast of prey,  Are similes at hand for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48719]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tigress, robb'd of young, a lioness, Or other interesting beast of prey,  Are similes at hand for the distress   Of ladies who cannot have their own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself. [Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne saurait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54723]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself. [Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne saurait se plaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The decisions are made in conjunction with specialists, aviation specialists, and doctors and the passenger's doctor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36777]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decisions are made in conjunction with specialists, aviation specialists, and doctors and the passenger's doctor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11949]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48820]]></link><description><![CDATA[So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26634]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27859]]></link><description><![CDATA[The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone!  When warring winds have died away, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50688]]></link><description><![CDATA[How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone!  When warring winds have died away,   And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,    Melt off, and leave the land and sea     Sleeping in bright tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14015]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? [Lat., Ego si risi quod ineptus  Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax videar?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue  Among the flowers and grass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue  Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660   The greatest curse which can be entailed upon mankind is a state of war. All the atrocious crimes committed in years of peace -- all that is spent in peace by the secret corruptions or by the thoughtless extravagances of nations -- are mere trifles compared with the gigantic evils which stalk over the world in a state of war. God is forgotten in war -- every principle of Christian charity is trampled upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it soon cut off, and we fly away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle. They look the same you dumb s---, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29455]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle. They look the same you dumb s---,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He threatens many that hath injured one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50415]]></link><description><![CDATA[He threatens many that hath injured one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54271]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48261]]></link><description><![CDATA["And a bird-cage, sir," said Sam. "Veels vithin veels, a prison in a prison."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May everything he treads upon become a rose! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50828]]></link><description><![CDATA[May everything he treads upon become a rose!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The city is huge. Humongous buildings. I was really surprised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63460]]></link><description><![CDATA[As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're obviously looking forward to the Swedish Rally, as it's one of the most enjoyable rallies of the year for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31707]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're obviously looking forward to the Swedish Rally, as it's one of the most enjoyable rallies of the year for a driver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52748]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a question]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40024]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run around, because that's when the seams are there and the holes are there. The tighter you can stay, the more you can make them move it around and maybe take a shot they don't want to take, the better you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really don't believe there's a lot of people that have heard of me. In the past few seasons, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really don't believe there's a lot of people that have heard of me. In the past few seasons, we haven't been doing too well, but I'm pretty confident that as the season goes on, people will be looking me up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25626]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can one desire too much of a good thing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47662</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[There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42759]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23879]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2244]]></link><description><![CDATA[No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod,  And sting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod,  And sting the luckless foot that presses them?   There are who in the path of social life    Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,     And sting the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17460]]></link><description><![CDATA[My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she's reading.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These guys are not young anymore. They have eight games under their and it will be interesting to see how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41954]]></link><description><![CDATA[These guys are not young anymore. They have eight games under their and it will be interesting to see how we respond in a big game at this point in the season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60393]]></link><description><![CDATA[To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55506]]></link><description><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride:  Let Nature guide thee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride:  Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire   The shining belles of the fly require;    The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail,     Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't make a habit of pointing out other people's flaws. You're not perfect either. Look in the mirror before you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't make a habit of pointing out other people's flaws. You're not perfect either. Look in the mirror before you look out the window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the soul of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the soul of business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66729</guid></item></channel></rss>