<?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[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was such a dear little cock-tailed pup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12647]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was such a dear little cock-tailed pup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66677]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6556]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45394</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[Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60480]]></link><description><![CDATA[White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds  Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds,   As sayeth thy old historian and thy guest!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You all know how difficult it is to operate with unanimity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41590]]></link><description><![CDATA[You all know how difficult it is to operate with unanimity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52083]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  There is no longer any room in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  There is no longer any room in the world for a merely external form of Christianity, based upon custom. The world is entering upon a period of catastrophe and crisis when we are being forced to take sides, and in which a higher and more intense spiritual life will be demanded of Christians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're kids, but we still want our voices heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're kids, but we still want our voices heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So free we seem, so fettered fast we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24725]]></link><description><![CDATA[So free we seem, so fettered fast we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Glen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55874]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Glen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world's a stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51232]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world's a stage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/173]]></link><description><![CDATA['Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51883]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Internet lets us do that for first time in the history of computers. It lets us, in effect, make them into one big parallel supercomputer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1925]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you put a dog on a chain, it's going to get aggressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37264]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you put a dog on a chain, it's going to get aggressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. [Lat., Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8725]]></link><description><![CDATA[The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. [Lat., Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's such a complex little show. Watching the second season, the writing deepened, the performance deepened, our interactions deepened. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36263]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's such a complex little show. Watching the second season, the writing deepened, the performance deepened, our interactions deepened. It was fun to get another whack at it, and we all know what we're doing a little bit more this time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.(on the spartan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57573]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.(on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota, 1996.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of joys departed Not to return, how painful the remembrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of joys departed Not to return, how painful the remembrance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62490]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The recommendations in this year's report particularly make it clear that it is not just governments that are involved here. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33125]]></link><description><![CDATA[The recommendations in this year's report particularly make it clear that it is not just governments that are involved here. Civil society has a huge role to play, communities have a huge role to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13759]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy eats nothing but its own heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy eats nothing but its own heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what's on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inter-group contact and positive relationships across the generations seem to be an important mechanism for combating ageist stereotypes, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inter-group contact and positive relationships across the generations seem to be an important mechanism for combating ageist stereotypes,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the task to shield an absent friend! I ask but this of mine to--not defend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48744]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the task to shield an absent friend! I ask but this of mine to--not defend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58204]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est,  Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could have been a real nasty situation. But our coaching staff, the Douglas coaching staff and everyone else got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could have been a real nasty situation. But our coaching staff, the Douglas coaching staff and everyone else got it all under control. None of the players off the bench or any of the fans in the stands ever made contact with any players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11114]]></link><description><![CDATA[In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice,  And with that boding cry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice,  And with that boding cry   Along the waves dost thou fly?    Oh! rather, bird, with me     Through this fair land rejoice!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63200]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the top, keep climbing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12710]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the top, keep climbing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen,  Did cause their clergy, with lustrations  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen,  Did cause their clergy, with lustrations   . . . .    The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert,     From doing town or country hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We voted on it, but that doesn't mean it went through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41153]]></link><description><![CDATA[We voted on it, but that doesn't mean it went through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are one another's angels ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are one another's angels]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43852]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43852</guid></item></channel></rss>