<?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[My soul is dark! oh quickly string The harp I yet can brook to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48752]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is dark! oh quickly string The harp I yet can brook to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   Almighty and most merciful Father, by Whose providence my life has been prolonged, and Who has granted me now to begin another year of probation, vouchsafe me such assistance of Thy Holy Spirit, that the continuance of my life may not add to the measure of my guilt, but that I may so repent of the days and years passed in neglect of the duties which Thou hast set before me, in vain thoughts, in sloth, and in folly, that I may apply my heart to true wisdom, by diligence redeem the time lost, and by repentance, obtain pardon, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll respond; we've responded all season. It was obviously disappointing, and it left a bitter taste in everybody's mouth. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41346]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll respond; we've responded all season. It was obviously disappointing, and it left a bitter taste in everybody's mouth. We have to bounce back. This is another big week for us. We're playing some tough teams, and we really have to rise to the occasion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get past the falling-down part. Instead of telling them, 'Oh, well, this first day or two is going to be brutal,' the focus is on the things that will really help them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1166]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As of right now, we have given $105,140. And it's been a wonderful labor of love, and I don't even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31861]]></link><description><![CDATA[As of right now, we have given $105,140. And it's been a wonderful labor of love, and I don't even like to use the world labor, it's just been all love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44242]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's very happy, and a lot of players need to be happy off the field to be playing well on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35972]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's very happy, and a lot of players need to be happy off the field to be playing well on the field, and I'd say Archie is that kind of person,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This fearful concatenation of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8729]]></link><description><![CDATA[This fearful concatenation of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since 1994, any herbal remedy sold as a dietary supplement -- no matter what their real purpose -- the FDA ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since 1994, any herbal remedy sold as a dietary supplement -- no matter what their real purpose -- the FDA has no authority over them,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,--  This art of writing billet-doux--   In buds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47818]]></link><description><![CDATA[An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,--  This art of writing billet-doux--   In buds, and odors, and bright hues!    In saying all one feels and thinks     In clever daffodils and pinks;      In puns of tulips; and in phrases,       Charming for their truth, of daisies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5550]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60521]]></link><description><![CDATA[If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51981]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44644]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11553]]></link><description><![CDATA[All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War profiteer cartelsand the Cheney Wolfowitz regimeare called The United Statesby warwhore news teams.Everywhere including peace loving Schenectadythe American peopledislike ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59835]]></link><description><![CDATA[War profiteer cartelsand the Cheney Wolfowitz regimeare called The United Statesby warwhore news teams.Everywhere including peace loving Schenectadythe American peopledislike such synecdoches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candor is the brightest gem of criticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is the brightest gem of criticism]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17588]]></link><description><![CDATA[They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one long process of getting tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one long process of getting tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25234]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's looking like more of an electrical issue, but we are still waiting for the official word from the state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33804]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's looking like more of an electrical issue, but we are still waiting for the official word from the state fire marshal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physicians mend or end us; but though in health we sneer; when sick we call them to attend us, without the least propensity to jeer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way thingsturn out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way thingsturn out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54488]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many otherwise intelligent people have never read with adult attention either the four Gospels or the Letters of the New Testament. When they so do, to my certain knowledge they not infrequently become converted. Indeed, I know of no adult who has seriously studied the New Testament and rejected the stories of Christ as mythical or the evidence of changed lives in the Letters as mere fabrication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59162]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just don't know how you make people get along, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39712]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just don't know how you make people get along,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19369]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half- empty. And cracked. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46430]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half- empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The public is a lot more forgiving of people with true problems. But you've got to endear yourself to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The public is a lot more forgiving of people with true problems. But you've got to endear yourself to the public, appear more genuinely apologetic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38787]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is all too well rooted. Because if it means anything it means the in-sanctity of species which are not human.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8121]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His Father and our Father, His God and our God. Till we thus know Him, let us hold the Bible dear as the moon of our darkness, by which we travel toward the east; not dear as the sun whence her light cometh, and towards which we haste, that, walking in the sun himself, we may no more need the mirror that reflected his absent brightness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43140</guid></item></channel></rss>