<?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[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/801]]></link><description><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eye We late saw streaming o'er. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eye We late saw streaming o'er.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consumer has responded by renting more and renting more often, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consumer has responded by renting more and renting more often,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very dangerous to me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Arabian Proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18964]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything. -Arabian Proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lark now leaves his watery nest, And climbing, shakes his dewy wings.  He takes your window for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lark now leaves his watery nest, And climbing, shakes his dewy wings.  He takes your window for the East   And to implore your light he sings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!)  Be humble and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!)  Be humble and be just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Peace comes when there is no cloud between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him. The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace -- the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14401]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are no women there are no good manners ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are no women there are no good manners]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. [Lat., Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no remedy for sex but more sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no remedy for sex but more sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63785]]></link><description><![CDATA[A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper! -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized and understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main purpose is to visit troops as their commander in chief to relay the support of the folks back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main purpose is to visit troops as their commander in chief to relay the support of the folks back home. It's also an opportunity to see first hand the places they've served and continue to serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sounding jargon of the schools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58738]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sounding jargon of the schools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't expect to deliver a baby in the parking lot. It happened in about 12 or 15 minutes, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36856]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't expect to deliver a baby in the parking lot. It happened in about 12 or 15 minutes, and it was over with. It happened so fast I didn't have time to think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43839]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happy family is but an earlier heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happy family is but an earlier heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are going to be traveling, make sure all your immunizations are current, drink only bottled water and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41450]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are going to be traveling, make sure all your immunizations are current, drink only bottled water and I wouldn't eat poultry in Asia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have done this for two years now and it has always been very successful and professionally done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31941]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have done this for two years now and it has always been very successful and professionally done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. [Fr., Le premier pas, mon fils, que l'on fait dans le monde,  Est celui dont depend le reste de nos jours.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dating should be less about matching outward circumstances than meeting your inner necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. [Lat., Cineri gloria sera est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. [Lat., Cineri gloria sera est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All hospitals could achieve it, with a blueprint of how to go about it and the will to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40751]]></link><description><![CDATA[All hospitals could achieve it, with a blueprint of how to go about it and the will to do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? [Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear? [Who is so deaf as he that will not hear?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51282]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A church debt is the devil's salary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A church debt is the devil's salary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5797]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol is what fathers of the Church have called "the bondage of the will". This bondage becomes most painfully apparent in our lives when we earnestly feel the need of changing but cannot; when we are attracted to another value that for one reason or another conflicts with the desires of our true god --that value nearest and dearest to us. But our true god lies so deeply inside us that often we are not even consciously aware of its presence or of what it actually is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live (John 11:25).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assume a virtue if you have it not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assume a virtue if you have it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42040]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4757]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [Lat., Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [Lat., Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Horse and GroomA groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his Horse, but at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Horse and GroomA groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his Horse, but at the same time stole his oats and sold them for his own profit. Alas! said the Horse, if you really wish me to be in good condition, you should groom me less, and feed me more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6774</guid></item></channel></rss>