<?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[An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10577]]></link><description><![CDATA[An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of the most High cometh healing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26678]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of the most High cometh healing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest ;man and to the gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44566]]></link><description><![CDATA[If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Round numbers are always false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Round numbers are always false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50068]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37290]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22506]]></link><description><![CDATA[People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44420]]></link><description><![CDATA[For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  What we have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ -- can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father -- that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2834]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gray skies are just clouds passing over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls  Upon the Sovereign One's immortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17754]]></link><description><![CDATA[The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls  Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head   Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount,    Olympus trembled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?--  He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45356]]></link><description><![CDATA[An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?--  He's here! He's there! he's everywhere!   An me! he's nowhere!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2673]]></link><description><![CDATA[For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future. [Lat., Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris  Ore trahit, quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo   Quem struit; hand ignara ac non incauta futuri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank dominated from the start. He then took him to the ground, top-mounted him, and let out a flurry of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank dominated from the start. He then took him to the ground, top-mounted him, and let out a flurry of punches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26825]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has gone to the demnition bow-wows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15388]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no;  That would, as soon as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43065]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no;  That would, as soon as e'er she shone straight,   Whether 'twere day or night demonstrate;    Tell what her d'ameter to an inch is,     And prove that she's not made of green cheese.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63406]]></link><description><![CDATA[For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing common can seem worthy of you. [Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing common can seem worthy of you. [Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14404]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves. [Lat., Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium  Jubeo atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health-care costs have been their No. 1 concern for 20 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health-care costs have been their No. 1 concern for 20 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63691]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it was beautiful, isolated and near enough to anything you could want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33348]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it was beautiful, isolated and near enough to anything you could want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to seek God because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7457]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to seek God because I need Him", may be an adequate formula for prayer. "I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet", is the only possible formula for worship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a lady says to an eager lover he may write in the wind, or in running water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50802]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a lady says to an eager lover he may write in the wind, or in running water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66702]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15988]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light may come where all looks darkest, Hope hath life, when life seems o'er. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light may come where all looks darkest, Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58548]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of people's jobs and lives and economic well-being depending on moving water through the delta in an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31904]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of people's jobs and lives and economic well-being depending on moving water through the delta in an ecologically sound manner. It's hard to imagine a more important issue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9531]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47860]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you picture my prophecy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you picture my prophecy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gap in health between white and black Americans has been estimated to cause 84,000 excess deaths in a year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gap in health between white and black Americans has been estimated to cause 84,000 excess deaths in a year ... a virtual Katrina every week,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33212</guid></item></channel></rss>