<?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 Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn, to the sea,  And Wickliff's dust shall spread abroad   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn, to the sea,  And Wickliff's dust shall spread abroad   Wide as the waters be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a billionaire's spending habit, but a millionaire's budget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35924]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a billionaire's spending habit, but a millionaire's budget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61208]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51818]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have passed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A threefold cord is not quickly broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A threefold cord is not quickly broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it was there, perhaps it dissipated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33721]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it was there, perhaps it dissipated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The assassination changed the way we thought, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The assassination changed the way we thought,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51273]]></link><description><![CDATA[One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56165]]></link><description><![CDATA[She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9177]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray, and let God worry ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray, and let God worry]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888   "The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success demands singleness of purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success demands singleness of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just got a new theory of eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just got a new theory of eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14925]]></link><description><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to him who tries and fails and dies,   I give great honor and glory and tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30586]]></link><description><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19743]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.  In law, what plea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51413]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.  In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt   But being seasoned with a gracious voice,    Obscures the show of evil? In religion,     What damned error but some sober brow      Will bless it and approve it with a text,       Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,  The mingled beauties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54938]]></link><description><![CDATA[So stands the statue that enchants the world, So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,  The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25671]]></link><description><![CDATA[If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2847]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14969]]></link><description><![CDATA[To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66113]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13479]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you feel bad about yourselfyou reverse your magnet and repel people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5780]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you feel bad about yourselfyou reverse your magnet and repel people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend- without a song" So I keep singing a song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capacity for joy Admits temptation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call it the ripple in a great big water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17492]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have much, give of your wealth; If you have little, give of your heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12686]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52551]]></link><description><![CDATA[It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47392</guid></item></channel></rss>