<?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 ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53432]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53420]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise est la plus redoubtable de l"Europe; heureusement, il n'y en a pas beaucoup.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63488]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been Monroe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been Monroe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We put bells on them, we're putting up another fence and doing more for security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39513]]></link><description><![CDATA[We put bells on them, we're putting up another fence and doing more for security.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is anger directed at ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people think that the new economy is all about the internet. I think that it's being fueled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people think that the new economy is all about the internet. I think that it's being fueled by the internet - as well as by cell phones, digital assistants, and the like - but that it's really about customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, 'a stalks up and down like a peacock--a stride and a stand; ruminates like an hostess that hath no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, 'a stalks up and down like a peacock--a stride and a stand; ruminates like an hostess that hath no arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning; bites his lip with a politic regard, as who should say, 'There were wit in this head an 'twould out'; and so there is, but it lies as coldly in him as fire in a flint, which will not show without knocking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there,  And whoever wakes in England   Sees some morning, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there,  And whoever wakes in England   Sees some morning, unaware,    That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf,     Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf      While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough       In England--now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that even when you win, you're still arat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22291]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with the rat race is that even when you win, you're still arat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necessaire de tenir les choses pour en raisonner.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Will of Man Is Stronger Than Iron Bars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Will of Man Is Stronger Than Iron Bars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7634]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other times; that we are as strictly obliged to adhere to God by action in the time of action as by prayer in the season of prayer. That his view of prayer was nothing else but a sense of the Presence of God, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but Divine Love; and that when the appointed times of prayer were past, he found no difference, because he still continued with God, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy; yet hoped that God would give him somewhat to suffer when he should have grown stronger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is great; but silence is greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is great; but silence is greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5847]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man must behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness was not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart is something you can't teach. This isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport, and this one says we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart is something you can't teach. This isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport, and this one says we work hard and we deserve a lot more respect than we're getting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it makes it much easier if we're looking at a 10-year number for $35 billion, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it makes it much easier if we're looking at a 10-year number for $35 billion,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joking apart, now let us be serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joking apart, now let us be serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58018]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58463]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I light my candle from their torches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25049]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I light my candle from their torches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen the future and it is very much like the present, only longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39647]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen the future and it is very much like the present, only longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. •Spanish Proverb    Lawless are they that make their wills their law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's only as old as the woman he feels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63494]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's only as old as the woman he feels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54859]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/954]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61198]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people can be a little fickle. They'll go for the newest, hottest thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people can be a little fickle. They'll go for the newest, hottest thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics are people with the tears wiped from their eyes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics are people with the tears wiped from their eyes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36417]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65383</guid></item></channel></rss>