<?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[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/499]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make greatest and not best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to rise from life as from a banquet--neither thirsty nor drunken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42890]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to rise from life as from a banquet--neither thirsty nor drunken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64857]]></link><description><![CDATA[One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1943]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is jealous is not in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66650]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is jealous is not in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26923]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities always look bigger going than coming ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities always look bigger going than coming]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often a noble face hides filthy ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often a noble face hides filthy ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63362]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:--this we know,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:--this we know,  Duty requires we calmly wait the summons,   Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23043]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone   In the ring of this world, the most precious stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mill gets by going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mill gets by going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11011]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters to what lies within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63226]]></link><description><![CDATA[What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters to what lies within us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? It seems purposeless. Our question of the why of evil assumes the view that the world has a purpose, and what we want to know is how suffering fits into and advances this purpose. The modern view is that suffering has no purpose because nothing that happens has any purpose: the world is run by causes, not by purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dad was a Buick guy and I followed in his footsteps. But I always liked the performance end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34889]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dad was a Buick guy and I followed in his footsteps. But I always liked the performance end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I’m so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet like candy to my soul ~~ Sweet you rock and sweet you roll ~~ Lost for you I’m so lost for you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving prejudices, reckless tongue, feverish desires, with all the damage they have caused to Christ's Body, be set aside, because -- because, in spite of all, he longs for God and Eternal Life: then he must set aside and forgive all that the impatience, selfishness, bitter and foolish speech, and sudden yieldings to base impulse by others have caused him to endure. Hardness is the one impossible thing. Harshness to others in those who ask and need the mercy of God sets up a conflict at the very heart of personality and shuts the door upon grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death, the one appointment we all must keep, and for which no time is set ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death, the one appointment we all must keep, and for which no time is set]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My library Was dukedom large enough. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56097]]></link><description><![CDATA[My library Was dukedom large enough. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his sheep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51563]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear, not to skin his sheep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. - My Summer in a Garden, 1871.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of concealment. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding something comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects which must not be touched, the bloom of life is gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a waking dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True is it that we have seen better days. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55655]]></link><description><![CDATA[True is it that we have seen better days. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I support his race for Congress and I hope he'll be our next representative in Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I support his race for Congress and I hope he'll be our next representative in Washington.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is philosophy learned from examples. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19450]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is philosophy learned from examples.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair,  With gold in her garment glittering,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18589]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair,  With gold in her garment glittering,   And she combs her golden hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47574]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us. Hence it is that people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to preserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change. The tendency to look for all causes outside ourselves persists even when it is clear that our state of being is the product of personal qualities such as ability, character, appearance, health and so on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,  Now nearer, crowns with her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45470]]></link><description><![CDATA[So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,  Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green,   As with a rural mound, the champain head    Of a steep wilderness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62123]]></link><description><![CDATA[But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62123</guid></item></channel></rss>