<?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[For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51275]]></link><description><![CDATA[For emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Sorrow I bade good-morrow,  And though to leave her far away behind;   But cheerly, cheerly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57256]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Sorrow I bade good-morrow,  And though to leave her far away behind;   But cheerly, cheerly,    She loves me dearly:     She is so constant to me, and so kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Joy to the world! the Lord is come!  Let earth receive her King; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Joy to the world! the Lord is come!  Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare him room,  And heav'n and nature sing. Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns!  Let men their songs employ, While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains,  Repeat the sounding joy. No more let sins and sorrows grow,  Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make his blessings flow  Far as the curse is found. He rules the world with truth and grace,  And makes the nations prove The glories of his righteousness,  And wonders of his love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19239]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is darkest, men see the stars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26301]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is darkest, men see the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe not a liar, even when he is speaking the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48888]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe not a liar, even when he is speaking the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was lawyers nominated, but nothing would happen. I guess I got into someone's ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33892]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was lawyers nominated, but nothing would happen. I guess I got into someone's ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agreement in likes and dislikes--this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/143]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. - Unkempt Thoughts, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61707]]></link><description><![CDATA[And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. . . . For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weather-beaten face, and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not making mistakes, and they're living on the corners. You don't make a living hitting borderline pitches that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35261]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not making mistakes, and they're living on the corners. You don't make a living hitting borderline pitches that are off the plate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35261</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[All hell shall stir for this. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55972]]></link><description><![CDATA[All hell shall stir for this. -King Henry V. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the topography of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the topography of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54127]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.  In law, what plea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51413]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.  In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt   But being seasoned with a gracious voice,    Obscures the show of evil? In religion,     What damned error but some sober brow      Will bless it and approve it with a text,       Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man dies - Not every man really lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man dies - Not every man really lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No naked man is sought after to be rifled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49654]]></link><description><![CDATA[No naked man is sought after to be rifled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20505]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's his name, the number 10, the small one who doesn't play in the Real Madrid first team. This midget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31025]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's his name, the number 10, the small one who doesn't play in the Real Madrid first team. This midget who thinks he's a king, I refuse to talk about him any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;  And only he who sees takes off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;  And only he who sees takes off his shoes;   The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. . . . May it not be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. . . . May it not be said of the bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the streets "with a lie in their right hand?" . . . Except in a very few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so by art, and yet have failed--have expended their patrimony in the purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and strunken purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and borrowing for the remainder of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5006]]></link><description><![CDATA[To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord   The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the disease of one the whole flock perishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50441]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66916]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird loves her nest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird loves her nest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[61 died that day in the 1st infantry..in Vietnam.. two? rows of body bags.. the fruit of war...drying in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/218]]></link><description><![CDATA[61 died that day in the 1st infantry..in Vietnam.. two? rows of body bags.. the fruit of war...drying in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We absolutely could not stop those two girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29298]]></link><description><![CDATA[We absolutely could not stop those two girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66385]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, with the thoughts he is thinking, with the deeds he is doing; when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty think all talk is of themselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty think all talk is of themselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18456</guid></item></channel></rss>