<?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[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really is about time that in such an important city, the capital, that we have something that can represent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really is about time that in such an important city, the capital, that we have something that can represent London.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24148]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27030]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/596]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60651]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil:  And thus I clothe my naked villainy   With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ,    And seems a saint, when most I play the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again  Thinking of thee, still thee, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/153]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again  Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,   And memory, like a drop that, night and day,    Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My steps have pressed the flowers, That to the Muses' bowers  The eternal dews of Helicon have given:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44054]]></link><description><![CDATA[My steps have pressed the flowers, That to the Muses' bowers  The eternal dews of Helicon have given:   And trod the mountain height,    Where Science, young and bright,     Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.      Yet have I found no power to vie       With thine, severe necessity!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18105]]></link><description><![CDATA[How inimitably graceful children are before they learn to dance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dignity of history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dignity of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62184]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.  Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61422]]></link><description><![CDATA[What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.  Is this too little?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52998]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54388]]></link><description><![CDATA[In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58418]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22807]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. -Joseph Addison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is not alluring to pure minds ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is not alluring to pure minds]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in the top five in our golf team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in the top five in our golf team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; Give us courage to change what should be changed; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55194]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; Give us courage to change what should be changed; Give us the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow,  And every day, for food or play, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1979]]></link><description><![CDATA[And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow,  And every day, for food or play,   Came to the mariner's hollo!    "God save thee, ancient Mariner!     From the fiends that plague thus thee!--      Why look'st thou so?"--"With my cross-bow       I shot the Albatross."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60615]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The engineers had to redesign the software, reprogram the tape recorder and had to get Galileo to do data compression, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31979]]></link><description><![CDATA[The engineers had to redesign the software, reprogram the tape recorder and had to get Galileo to do data compression,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,rnLove like you'll never be hurt,rnSing like there's nobody listening,rnAnd live like it's heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65455]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,rnLove like you'll never be hurt,rnSing like there's nobody listening,rnAnd live like it's heaven on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care  Each minute and unseen part;   For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3027]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care  Each minute and unseen part;   For the gods see everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delays have dangerous ends. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delays have dangerous ends. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[where war becomes unthinkable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41941]]></link><description><![CDATA[where war becomes unthinkable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zane Trace, every opportunity we gave them, they took advantage of it, ... They're a real scrappy team and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zane Trace, every opportunity we gave them, they took advantage of it, ... They're a real scrappy team and they never gave up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29276]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up in the stations. I'll just be going from the field to the office more. I have to thank Tim (Bragg, who retired last week as assistant fire chief with 28 years at MFD). He prepared me well for the office end of this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who want the most approval get the least and people who needapproval the least get the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21294]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who want the most approval get the least and people who needapproval the least get the most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66049]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with priests' skulls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with priests' skulls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26344]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Jesus'] life and utterance were the proclamation of this new order of things, of this new force by which man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6507]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Jesus'] life and utterance were the proclamation of this new order of things, of this new force by which man was to be ruled. When, unarmed and defenseless, He said to the Roman power, "My Kingdom is not of this world," He spoke the word of inauguration. Over the kingdom of the elemental forces, over the kingdom of the animal, over the kingdom of the intellect, He beheld rising, with Himself as prophet and embodiment, that kingdom of the spiritual whose forces should be those of purity and sacrifice, love and trust, obedience and service. It is the last of the kingdoms because it is the highest; it will be the most enduring for there is nothing that can take its place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3362]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting aside the scandal caused by His Messianic claims and His reputation as a political firebrand, only two accusations of personal depravity seem to have been brought against Jesus of Nazareth. First, that He was a Sabbath-breaker. Secondly, that He was "a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners" -- or (to draw aside the veil of Elizabethan English that makes it sound so much more respectable) that He ate too heartily, drank too freely, and kept very disreputable company, including grafters of the lowest type and ladies who were no better than they should be. For nineteen and a half centuries, the Christian Churches have laboured, not without success, to remove this unfortunate impression made by their Lord and Master. They have hustled the Magdalens from the Communion-table, founded Total Abstinence Societies in the name of Him who made the water wine, and added improvements of their own, such as various bans and anathemas upon dancing and theatre-going. They have transferred the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, and, feeling that the original commandment "Thou shalt not work" was rather half-hearted, have added to it the new commandment, "Thou shalt not play.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63764]]></link><description><![CDATA[A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63764</guid></item></channel></rss>