<?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[Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23176]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man proposes, and God disposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4352]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is empty and all the devils are here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is empty and all the devils are here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of a collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every sin is the result of a collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let those love now, who never loved before, Let those who always loved, now love the more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let those love now, who never loved before, Let those who always loved, now love the more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devakimysteriously as the sun settingin the West imparts his raysto the rising moon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devakimysteriously as the sun settingin the West imparts his raysto the rising moon in the East.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole thing goes back to the presence of God. You need to be in a state of decorum. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole thing goes back to the presence of God. You need to be in a state of decorum. You must ask yourself: How would God like to see me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1235]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe;  Pattern in himself to know, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23517]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe;  Pattern in himself to know,   Grace to stand, and virtue go;    More nor less to others paying     Than by self-offenses weighing.      Shame to him whose cruel striking       Kills for faults of his own liking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're getting mature the responsibility you have ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33432]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're getting mature the responsibility you have]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall,  I hurry amain to reach the plain;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall,  I hurry amain to reach the plain;   Run the rapid and leap the fall,    Split at the rock, and together again     Accept my bed, or narrow or wide,      And flee from folly on every side       With a lover's pain to attain the plain,        Far from the hills of Habersham,         Far from the valleys of Hall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It (first game) could have been different, you never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It (first game) could have been different, you never know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44913]]></link><description><![CDATA[An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42887]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61522]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can say Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Hekmatyar represent a threat to the world and we believe we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45312]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can say Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Hekmatyar represent a threat to the world and we believe we will catch them within the next year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. -A Midsummer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55536]]></link><description><![CDATA[This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We two parted In silence and tears,  Half broken-hearted   To sever for years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45560]]></link><description><![CDATA[We two parted In silence and tears,  Half broken-hearted   To sever for years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51732]]></link><description><![CDATA[And from his ashes may be made The violet of his native land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is the whetstone of talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is the whetstone of talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26896]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless ourwalking is our preaching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21130]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless ourwalking is our preaching.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is love; in no case is it logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is love; in no case is it logic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In effect, the army is confined to fortified bases while the Taliban are filling the vacuum outside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29790]]></link><description><![CDATA[In effect, the army is confined to fortified bases while the Taliban are filling the vacuum outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.  Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing   With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30736]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way,surrounded by your family. Nurture their love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way,surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering thatyour children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hastenwhen you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. Andeven if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you havea loving family, you are a success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Thomas Hobbes) walked much and contemplated, and he had in the head of his staff a pen and ink-horn, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38822]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Thomas Hobbes) walked much and contemplated, and he had in the head of his staff a pen and ink-horn, carried always a notebook in his pocket, and as soon as a thought darted, he presently entered it into his book, or otherwise he might perhaps ha]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The industry is awash in federal drilling permits. They have so many, they don't know what to do with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The industry is awash in federal drilling permits. They have so many, they don't know what to do with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4670]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a long black coat   All button'd down before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher, 604 For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7425</guid></item></channel></rss>