<?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[Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins on the vicious member,   Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber,    And grief-less then (guided by use and art),     To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In many ways this is turned into a developing country, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41511]]></link><description><![CDATA[In many ways this is turned into a developing country,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him laugh who wins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him laugh who wins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was like, here comes a joke. Here's the joke. I just told a joke! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35155]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was like, here comes a joke. Here's the joke. I just told a joke!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25667]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48635]]></link><description><![CDATA[How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:  So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,   and thy want as an armed man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tarred with the same stick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tarred with the same stick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17217]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a way to do it better - find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64033]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a way to do it better - find it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They know the time to go! The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour  In field and woodland, and each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16261]]></link><description><![CDATA[They know the time to go! The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour  In field and woodland, and each punctual flower   Bows at the signal an obedient head    And hastens to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,  In some dread moment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,  In some dread moment. by the fates assign'd,   Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;    And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last     The speed that spins the future and the past:      And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,       Awful eternity shall reign alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27410]]></link><description><![CDATA[And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cardinal rule is you stay on line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cardinal rule is you stay on line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think and that is all that I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think and that is all that I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luther looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5301]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luther looks like a prince compared to these people because he knew when it was time to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This move is to put the defense team on a proper legal foundation and when the family appoints lawyers it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28225]]></link><description><![CDATA[This move is to put the defense team on a proper legal foundation and when the family appoints lawyers it then knows who is whom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61096]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are already witnessing major strains in many of our developing countries, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36693]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are already witnessing major strains in many of our developing countries,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. -Love's Labour 's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4250]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52905]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   I am glad that you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   I am glad that you have been acquainted, from your youth, with the wrestlings of God, being cast from furnace to furnace; knowing, if you were not dear to God, and if your health did not require so much of him, he would not spend as much physic upon you. All the brethren and sisters of Christ must be conformed to his image in suffering, Rom. viii.17, and some do more fully resemble the copy than others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we can't get it together [in the face of Hurricane Katrina], ... So imagine a country that's very poor, with a clunky bureaucracy. The ability to coordinate and manage this sort of crisis, especially in a country with corruption, high levels of alcoholism and a top-heavy bureaucracy, is challenging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When good Americans die they go to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2421]]></link><description><![CDATA[When good Americans die they go to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn  Loud as the virtues thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn  Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt,   Not practise!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51069]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can observe a lot just by watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44778]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can observe a lot just by watching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44778</guid></item></channel></rss>