<?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[The oyster is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not the letter R in their name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oyster is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not the letter R in their name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23703]]></link><description><![CDATA[One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge", not the Bible, save as leading to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True praise rootes and spreedes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50021]]></link><description><![CDATA[True praise rootes and spreedes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started a big part of my career in Vegas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41012]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started a big part of my career in Vegas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15624]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally.(US District Judge in commenting on the Fox network lawsuitagainst Al ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47355]]></link><description><![CDATA[This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally.(US District Judge in commenting on the Fox network lawsuitagainst Al Franken's book).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18193]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24283]]></link><description><![CDATA[For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57620]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . .  I like such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23105]]></link><description><![CDATA[That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . .  I like such ivy; bold to leap a height   'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves    As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too     (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66134]]></link><description><![CDATA[God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Caterpillar plant invited us to come. As you can imagine, the president gets invited to a lot of places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28968]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Caterpillar plant invited us to come. As you can imagine, the president gets invited to a lot of places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of minor holes around the city, but nothing that's a major problem for people driving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33189]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of minor holes around the city, but nothing that's a major problem for people driving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32258]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them, springing fresh from the Word! Sweet the new rain's fall sunlit from heaven, Like the first dewfall on the first grass. Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden, Spring in completeness where His feet pass. Mine is the sunlight! Mine is the morning Born of the one light Eden saw play! Praise with elation, praise every morning, God's re-creation of the new day!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babies are such a nice way to start people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babies are such a nice way to start people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63228]]></link><description><![CDATA[All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20472]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no medicine to cure hatred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26670]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no medicine to cure hatred]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27686]]></link><description><![CDATA[And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait;  O Shepherdess of England's fold,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18208]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait;  O Shepherdess of England's fold,   Behold this gate of pearl and gold!   - William Blake,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19377]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue--the swan's down-feather  That stands upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue--the swan's down-feather  That stands upon the swell at full of tide,   And neither way inclines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58457</guid></item></channel></rss>