<?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[O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,  And heightens ease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2768]]></link><description><![CDATA[O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,  And heightens ease with grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,  I pray ye flog ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58732]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain,  I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,   It mends their morals, never mind the pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58946]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's hand in yours-what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arguments with furniture are rarely productive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, since Thou hast taken from me all that I had of Thee, yet of Thy grace leave me the gift which every dog has by nature: that of being true to Thee in my distress, when I am deprived of all consolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39330]]></link><description><![CDATA[A miniature like this would have been a love token. The braid of hair has a great deal of intimacy and personal significance for whomever would have owned this miniature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything -- we have all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we expected so many medals. I think it's a very good start. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35213]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we expected so many medals. I think it's a very good start.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64783]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering throughour mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21473]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering throughour mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We'reespecially responsible for the one's we put there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're struggling a little bit with some injuries but we've got great depth and we feel good about that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're struggling a little bit with some injuries but we've got great depth and we feel good about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are worshipping false gods—such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57743]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are worshipping false gods—such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology or automobiles or houses or gold or silver—and you can tell what a man worships by what he does on Sunday—repent and start worshipping the true and living God, the maker of heaven and earth and all things that in them are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10815]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41949]]></link><description><![CDATA[A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2154]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may fortune thou wilt say, "I am content to do the best for my neighbor that I can, saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may fortune thou wilt say, "I am content to do the best for my neighbor that I can, saving myself harmless." I promise thee, Christ will not hear their excuse; for He himself suffered harm for our sakes, and for our salvation was put to extreme death. I wis, if it had pleased Him, He might have saved us and never felt pain; but in suffering pains and death He did give us example, and teach us how we should do one for another, as He did for us all; for, as He saith himself, "he that will be mine, let him deny himself, and follow me, in bearing my cross and suffering my pains." Wherefore we must needs suffer pain with Christ to do our neighbor good, as well with the body and all his members, as with heart and mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her,  In vain would fond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23565]]></link><description><![CDATA[June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her,  In vain would fond winds fan her back to life,   Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce,  As a grave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/426]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce,  As a grave matron would to dance with girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Records aren't what come to mind. The markets are improving, but they're not red hot. Local employers are still moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Records aren't what come to mind. The markets are improving, but they're not red hot. Local employers are still moving with caution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50267]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35166]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before, they used to tell you who to vote for, but not this time, ... The management of the elections ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before, they used to tell you who to vote for, but not this time, ... The management of the elections is better today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. Itmay get tough, but it's a small price to pay for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. Itmay get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore are these things hid? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore are these things hid? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joel, I'm not a concept. I want you to just keep that in your head. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked-up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew God was working on this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30023]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew God was working on this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15858]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   To do for yourself the best that you have it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710   To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do -- to grit your teeth and clench your fists in order to survive the world at its harshest and worst -- is by that very act, to be unable to let something be done for you and in you that is more wonderful still. The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my end is my beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13785]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my end is my beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41915]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hire tea by the tea bag.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come backto the pleasant fact that there are only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come backto the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're simply following through on that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37115]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're simply following through on that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37115</guid></item></channel></rss>