<?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[Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well--  That is light grieving!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people like"If the people wants there's a lot of ways but if the people has no interest there's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people like"If the people wants there's a lot of ways but if the people has no interest there's a lot of reason & excuses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15618]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great recipe for success is to work, and always work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides,  Thou know'st, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides,  Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage;   But when his fair course is not hindered,    He makes sweet music with th' enameled stones,     Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge,      He overtaketh in his pilgrimage.       And so by many winding nooks he strays        With willing sport to the wild ocean.         Then let me go and hinder not my course.          I'll be as patient as a gentle stream           And make a pastime of each weary step,            Till the last step have brought me to my love;             And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil              A blessed soul doth in Elysium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farre shooting never kild bird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Farre shooting never kild bird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1988 I greet Thy sepulchre, salute Thy grave,  That blest enclosure, where the angels gave  The first glad tidings of Thy early light,  And resurrection from the earth and night.  I see that morning in Thy convert's tears,  Fresh as the dew, which but this downing wears.  I smell her spices; and her ointment yields  As rich a scent as the now primrosed fields:  The Day-star smiles, and light, with Thee deceased,  Now shines in all the chambers of the East.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66070]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You make decisions, and it doesn't always turn out right. That doesn't mean you made the wrong decision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41226]]></link><description><![CDATA[You make decisions, and it doesn't always turn out right. That doesn't mean you made the wrong decision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:  A sadder and a wiser man, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42799]]></link><description><![CDATA[He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn:  A sadder and a wiser man,   He rose the morrow morn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm banking on the playoffs now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41156]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm banking on the playoffs now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reject your reality and substitute it for my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20485]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known  The pangs of a poetic birth  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46859]]></link><description><![CDATA[They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known  The pangs of a poetic birth   By labours of their own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest But may imagine how the bird was dead,  Although the kite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest But may imagine how the bird was dead,  Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16698]]></link><description><![CDATA[No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58084]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art a traitor. Off with his head! Now by Saint Paul I swear  I will not dine until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art a traitor. Off with his head! Now by Saint Paul I swear  I will not dine until I see the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes. [Ger., Was man von der Minute ausgeslagen  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes. [Ger., Was man von der Minute ausgeslagen  Gibt keine Ewigkeit zuruck.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52234]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culling has begun. We are taking the help of farm workers also to destroy the poultry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culling has begun. We are taking the help of farm workers also to destroy the poultry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart; but the saying is true, 'The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart; but the saying is true, 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own:  He who, secure within, can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own:  He who, secure within, can say,   Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25754]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care,  And come like the benediction   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care,  And come like the benediction   That follows after prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53554]]></link><description><![CDATA[John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26960]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care if the Bible says it. It's wrong. It's wrong to divide people on the basis of sexual preference, of sexual orientation. It's wrong to say that women are unequal, if the Bible says so. It's wrong to say that Blacks are unequal even if the Hammite myth supports it or suggests it. The Bible is often wrong. It is often right. Of course, it is often brilliantly right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a craft not an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a craft not an art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She governs but she does not reign. [Fr., Elle gouvernait, mais elle ne regnait pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54468]]></link><description><![CDATA[She governs but she does not reign. [Fr., Elle gouvernait, mais elle ne regnait pas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything that happens is a jolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything that happens is a jolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18167]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18167</guid></item></channel></rss>