<?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[The February born will find Sincerity and peace of mind;  Freedom from passion and from care,   If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The February born will find Sincerity and peace of mind;  Freedom from passion and from care,   If they the Pearl (also green Amethyst) will wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11739]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who make people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I was going off all by myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24935]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare! -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66178]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which never has been, never is, and never will be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50764]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which never has been, never is, and never will be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was no way to plug the leak. The driver tried, but he got soaked in gas and had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35566]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was no way to plug the leak. The driver tried, but he got soaked in gas and had to be treated in the ambulance,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Off to her bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Off to her bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This panics the community. It makes people scared. And for no reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37735]]></link><description><![CDATA[This panics the community. It makes people scared. And for no reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57655]]></link><description><![CDATA[[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been doing that all year. We wanted to get out and spread the floor. We knew they were the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been doing that all year. We wanted to get out and spread the floor. We knew they were the bigger team. We couldn't just play them in the half court. We wanted to pressure them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot step into the same river twice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64893]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot step into the same river twice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56279]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61474]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels  When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself -- a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman, a righteous or unrighteous man, ... when in the fullness of tasks, questions, success or ill-hap, experiences and perplexities, a man throws himself into the arms of God... then he wakes with Christ in Gethsemane. That is faith, and it is thus that he becomes a man and Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a broken nest there are few whole eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15159]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,  A woman sat in unwomanly rags,   Plying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23941]]></link><description><![CDATA[With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red,  A woman sat in unwomanly rags,   Plying her needle and thread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hidden resentment, that lies behind the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7682]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hidden resentment, that lies behind the divisions of the Christian Church sees clearly the advantage of a united Christian front and cannot see why the Churches cannot 'get together'. The problem is doubtless complicated, for there are many honest differences held with equal sincerity, but it is only made insoluble because the different denominations are (possibly unconsciously) imagining God to be Roman or Anglican or Baptist or Methodist or Presbyterian or what have you. If they could see beyond their little inadequate god, and glimpse the reality of God, they might even laugh a little and perhaps weep a little. The result would be a unity that actually does transcend differences, instead of ignoring them with public politeness and private contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not posturing. This is a very clear indication that Geneva is becoming very doubtful. The bottom line is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36737]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not posturing. This is a very clear indication that Geneva is becoming very doubtful. The bottom line is that they are showing that they are strong and that they can take on the military.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/735]]></link><description><![CDATA[What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44541]]></link><description><![CDATA["Most musical, most melancholy" bird! A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!  In nature there is nothing melancholy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no substitute for guts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10427]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no substitute for guts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I went on TV I got a threat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I went on TV I got a threat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where round some mould'ring tow'r pale ivy creeps, And low-brow'd rocks hang nodding o'er the deeps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970   George Brush, the hero of [Thornton Wilder's] "Heaven's My Destination", a textbook salesman and evangelist extraordinary, is the innocent fool, in the kindliest sense of both the noun and the adjective. He is striving to be the fool in Christ, sowing the inevitable amazement, consternation and wrath that must ensue when Christ's fool runs at large among the worldly wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begone about your business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begone about your business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't mean the system is perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40892]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't mean the system is perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55845]]></link><description><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63431]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll take any trophy. I don't care what it says on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll take any trophy. I don't care what it says on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That?s what we?re trying to build. Two more groups to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33320]]></link><description><![CDATA[That?s what we?re trying to build. Two more groups to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years! I am so weary of toil and of tears,  Toil without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years! I am so weary of toil and of tears,  Toil without recompense--tears all in vain,   Take them and give me my childhood again.    I have grown weary of dust and decay,     Weary of sowing for others to reap;      Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4908]]></link><description><![CDATA[No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be a massive clash in all senses of the word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32589]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a massive clash in all senses of the word.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly noble mind has no resentments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly noble mind has no resentments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63980]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not given but exchanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not given but exchanged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative; And I did laugh sans intermission An ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55649]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative; And I did laugh sans intermission An hour by his dial. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55649</guid></item></channel></rss>