<?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[Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tunnel underneath the sea from Calais straight to Dover, Sir, The squeamish folks may cross by land from shore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48455]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tunnel underneath the sea from Calais straight to Dover, Sir, The squeamish folks may cross by land from shore to shore,  With sluices made to drown the French, if e'er they would come over, Sir,   Has long been talk'd of, till at length 'tis thought a monstrous bore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bully is a coward turned inside out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10372]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bully is a coward turned inside out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2765]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like as a feareful partridge, that is fledd From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare,  And falls to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like as a feareful partridge, that is fledd From the sharpe hauke which her attacked neare,  And falls to ground to seeke for succor theare,   Whereas the hungry spaniells she does spye,    With greedy jawes her ready for to teare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1764]]></link><description><![CDATA[To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9979]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should the devil have all the good tunes?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should the devil have all the good tunes?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51813]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are going to continue to drink. They're going to continue to smoke. They're going to continue to gamble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32409]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are going to continue to drink. They're going to continue to smoke. They're going to continue to gamble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People only see what they are prepared to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60824]]></link><description><![CDATA[People only see what they are prepared to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very treacherous. ... It's better to wait until conditions are better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32495]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very treacherous. ... It's better to wait until conditions are better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36314]]></link><description><![CDATA[I slapped him in the mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is ever seeking to get down to us -- to be the divine man in us. And we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8215]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is ever seeking to get down to us -- to be the divine man in us. And we are ever saying, "That be far from Thee, Lord!" We are careful, in our unbelief, over the divine dignity, of which He is too grand to think. Better pleasing to God ... is the audacity of Job, who, rushing into His presence, and flinging the door of His presence-chamber to the wall, like a troubled -- it may be angry -- but yet faithful child, calls aloud in the ear of Him whose perfect Fatherhood he has yet to learn, "Am I a sea or a whale, that Thou settest a watch over me?"... The devotion of God to His creatures is perfect; He does not think about Himself, but about them; He wants nothing for Himself, but finds His blessedness in the outgoing of blessedness. Ah! it is a terrible -- shall it be a lonely glory, this? We will draw near with our human response, our abandonment of self in the faith of Jesus. He Lives Himself to us -- shall we not give ourselves to Him? Shall we not give ourselves to each other whom He loves?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17553]]></link><description><![CDATA[This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style. Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style. Amaze th' learn'd, and make the learned smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet marked O where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower,  Before milk-white, now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet marked O where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower,  Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,   And maidens call it love-in-idleness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22137]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50874]]></link><description><![CDATA[In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14959]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28147]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796   The fall was simply this, that some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796   The fall was simply this, that some creature -- that is, something which is not God -- took His place with man; and man, trusting the creature more than God, walked in its light -- or darkness -- rather than in fellowship with God. Righteousness comes back when man by faith is brought to walk with God again, and to give Him His true place by acting or being acted upon in all things according to His will. Anything, therefore, not of faith is sin. And all such sin is bondage. Self-will is bondage, for self-will or independence of God means dependence on a creature; and we cannot be dependent on a creature, be it what it may, without (more or less) becoming subject to it. What has not been given up for money, or for some creature's love? But who has ever thus served the creature more than the Creator without waking at last to feel he is a bondman? I say nothing of the worse bondage which comes from our self-will, in the indulgence of our own thoughts, or passions, or affections. Even the very energies of faith, while, as yet unchastened, it acts from self, ... may only bring forth more bondage... Who but God can set men free? And He sets them free as they walk with Him. All independence of Him is darkness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7987</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[In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62479]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Midwest has always been rough, but the East Coast and the Carolinas have been good to us. And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31276]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Midwest has always been rough, but the East Coast and the Carolinas have been good to us. And the West Coast has been really good to us, too. Canada not so much, but that was before the album came out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62044]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have only, when before you glass, to keep pronouncing to yourself nimini-pimini; the lips cannot keep taking their plie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47586]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first co-writer was Andrew Jackson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30194]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first co-writer was Andrew Jackson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How freaky is that? If this isn't an omen, I don't know what is. It did remind me 10 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28407]]></link><description><![CDATA[How freaky is that? If this isn't an omen, I don't know what is. It did remind me 10 years is a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have the raw material, there is no doubt about that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37913]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have the raw material, there is no doubt about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is denied we eagerly covet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50806]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is denied we eagerly covet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All somebody had to do was throw a cigarette out and we have a disaster, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35568]]></link><description><![CDATA[All somebody had to do was throw a cigarette out and we have a disaster,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8911</guid></item></channel></rss>