<?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[Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;  The Queen commands, and we'll obey,   Over the hills and far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to relieve families from time to time is to let them keep some of their own money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to relieve families from time to time is to let them keep some of their own money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives;  And partly, seeing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25137]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to the purpose--for we cite our faults That they may hold excused our lawless lives;  And partly, seeing you are beautified   With goodly shape, and by your own report    A linguist, and a man of such perfection     As we do in our quality much want--]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417   He said not Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417   He said not Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be distressed; but He said, Thou shalt not be overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17688]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for me, let those two streams of blood and water which once gushed out of thy side . . . bring down with them salvation and holiness into my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4907]]></link><description><![CDATA[By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. [Lat., Auro pulsa fides. auro venalia jura,  Aurum lex sequitur, mox sine lege pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20324]]></link><description><![CDATA[…for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great ideas are dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20282]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great ideas are dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People concern themselves with being normal, rather than natural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44628]]></link><description><![CDATA[People concern themselves with being normal, rather than natural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!  Quoth the Raven "Nevermore!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountain is passed; now we shall get on better. [Fr., La montagne est passee; nous irons mieux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountain is passed; now we shall get on better. [Fr., La montagne est passee; nous irons mieux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housekeeping ain't no joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housekeeping ain't no joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43785]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1649]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have an imposing front line, and we had a tough time matching up against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39729]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have an imposing front line, and we had a tough time matching up against them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God Almighty hates a quitter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10368]]></link><description><![CDATA[God Almighty hates a quitter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not have. Every human is spiritual; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human spirit is your specifically human dimension and contains abilities other creatures do not have. Every human is spiritual; in fact, spirit is the essence of being human. You have a body that may become ill; you have a psyche that may become disturbed. But the spirit is what you are. It is your healthy core.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66399]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53666]]></link><description><![CDATA[I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66642]]></link><description><![CDATA[As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64180]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4001]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is past and only a better Future can change that...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a case am I in. -As You Like It. Epilogue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55698]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a case am I in. -As You Like It. Epilogue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumor is not always wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rumor is not always wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25650]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world of extremes, we can only love too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2071]]></link><description><![CDATA[She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52377]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The need is now and now is the time to meet future needs ... My greatest anxiety is getting everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33096]]></link><description><![CDATA[The need is now and now is the time to meet future needs ... My greatest anxiety is getting everything ready at home so I can go tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth  From all the fuming vanities ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion that their daily birth  From all the fuming vanities of earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21126]]></link><description><![CDATA[For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of thereflections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty needs much, avarice everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty needs much, avarice everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6150]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morning Sunne never lasts a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morning Sunne never lasts a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49897</guid></item></channel></rss>