<?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[So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47943]]></link><description><![CDATA[So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!   - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22306]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He presents too great a risk to the community. No amount of therapy will prepare him for release to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40087]]></link><description><![CDATA[He presents too great a risk to the community. No amount of therapy will prepare him for release to the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have known war as few men now living know it. It's verydestructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have known war as few men now living know it. It's verydestructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a meansof settling international disputes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it. in the book THE JUNGLE.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a compound creature, half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62688]]></link><description><![CDATA[HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was, therefore, only one quarter eagle, which is $2.50 in gold. Zoology is full of surprises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young people need models, not critics... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young people need models, not critics...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42963]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf,  They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking,   But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking    How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho!     How pleasant it is to have money!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, That fact has not created in me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44758]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64465]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God. If thou understandest not... the things which are beneath thee, how shalt thou comprehend those which are above thee? Submit thyself unto God, and humble thy sense to faith, and the light of knowledge shall be given thee, as shall be profitable and necessary unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52960]]></link><description><![CDATA[What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the gift which every dog has by nature: that of being true to Thee in my distress, when I am deprived of all consolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't stand accessories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't stand accessories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. That team, like this one, was a lot of interchangeable parts, getting up and down the floor, playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, definitely. That team, like this one, was a lot of interchangeable parts, getting up and down the floor, playing tenacious defense, predicated on great guard play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11630]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink, Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48724]]></link><description><![CDATA[But sighs subside, and tears (even widows') shrink, Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The interpretation of dreams is a great art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64990]]></link><description><![CDATA[The interpretation of dreams is a great art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it  From its sad visions of the other world  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it  From its sad visions of the other world   Than calling it at moments back to this.    The busy have no time for tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A trade is better then service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49080]]></link><description><![CDATA[A trade is better then service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19849]]></link><description><![CDATA[His neck is high and erect, his head replete with intelligence, his belly short, his back full, and his proud chest swells with hard muscles. [Lat., Ardua cervix,  Argumtumque caput, brevis alvos, obessaque terga,   Luxuriatque toris animosum pectus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world  Is full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world  Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen   Enough of all its sorrows, crimes and cares,    To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood     And view the haunts of Nature. The calm shade      Shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze       That makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm        To thy sick heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1975]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17974]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2380]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64129]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the x-rays, there doesn't seem to be any major (fracture) but we are waiting for a full report on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34717]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the x-rays, there doesn't seem to be any major (fracture) but we are waiting for a full report on that. Every ankle injury is different but I think we are faced with a (serious) tear of the lateral ligament and there is associated bone bruising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49687]]></link><description><![CDATA[One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17367]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longest Day hath an Eueninge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longest Day hath an Eueninge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10673</guid></item></channel></rss>