<?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[We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a municipal railroad that connects to BNSF and UP. We don't know if there are many railroads that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37363]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a municipal railroad that connects to BNSF and UP. We don't know if there are many railroads that provide this access.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was very big pressure for me to be very thin, because I was very tall. I was so lonely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39503]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was very big pressure for me to be very thin, because I was very tall. I was so lonely for my family, so far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61889]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They always win who side with God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22223]]></link><description><![CDATA[They always win who side with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freeze-Frame -Doc Childre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freeze-Frame -Doc Childre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare except my genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13668]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have nothing to declare except my genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny  The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5191]]></link><description><![CDATA[No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny  The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong   Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pot boils badly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pot boils badly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14338]]></link><description><![CDATA[All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3279]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54533]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncommitted life isn't worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncommitted life isn't worth living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None save great men have been the authors of great heresies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57101]]></link><description><![CDATA[None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the girls were more excited than she was. She was in a daze about the whole thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42020]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the girls were more excited than she was. She was in a daze about the whole thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48983]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can I get a raise if I balance the ball on my head on the Letterman Show? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can I get a raise if I balance the ball on my head on the Letterman Show?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23924]]></link><description><![CDATA[And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of people out there who would love to have that law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31342]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of people out there who would love to have that law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But yet she listen'd--'tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice;  Her heart, be sure, is not of ice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25166]]></link><description><![CDATA[But yet she listen'd--'tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice;  Her heart, be sure, is not of ice,   And one refusal no rebuff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few great men could pass personal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few great men could pass personal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge of a jest when you have done laughing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin  At him here;   But the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18887]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin  At him here;   But the old three-cornered hat    And the breeches and all that     Are so queer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf  OF Bard and Chief,   Old Erin's native Shamrock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56152]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf  OF Bard and Chief,   Old Erin's native Shamrock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. •Anonymous  Given a choice between two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6096]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. •Anonymous  Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25939]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We estimate the first phase will take 18 to 24 months to complete. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We estimate the first phase will take 18 to 24 months to complete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all--he's walking on them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way up and the way down are one and the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way up and the way down are one and the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27230]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11532]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. [Fr., On ne trompe point en bien; la fourberie ajoute la malice au mensonge.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grownup is a child with layers on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18375]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grownup is a child with layers on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33789]]></link><description><![CDATA[So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your face into a concrete block, if the concrete block was doing 40 miles an hour back at you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  It seems to me that testimonies should once again become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation  It seems to me that testimonies should once again become a part of the life of our churches. I have not made a study of why the testimony fell into disrepute and was discarded, but I suspect these were three of the factors:  (1) The same persons gave the testimony every time.  (2) They gave the same testimony every time.  (3) The testimony they gave was about something that happened ten, or twenty, or thirty years before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55962</guid></item></channel></rss>