<?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[She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29959]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't choose up sides on a round world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21511]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't choose up sides on a round world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. Yes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Horse AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed. Yes, said the Horse; if any remains out of what I am noweating I will give it you for the sake of my own superiordignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in theevening, I will give you a little sack full of barley. The Assreplied, Thank you. But I can't think that you, who refuse me alittle matter now. will by and by confer on me a greaterbenefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The English Infantry is the most formidable in Europe, but fortunately there is not much of it. [Fr., L'infanterie anglaise est la plus redoubtable de l"Europe; heureusement, il n'y en a pas beaucoup.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.  [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17859]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.  [Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,   Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care,  And come like the benediction   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care,  And come like the benediction   That follows after prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we have grown, my attention has turned more to dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38704]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we have grown, my attention has turned more to dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the Rider that breakes youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the Rider that breakes youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's been pretty consistent. He's pitched good every game. That's one thing we've been trying to find ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â consistency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32713]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's been pretty consistent. He's pitched good every game. That's one thing we've been trying to find ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â consistency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one message for those cowards, the killers that actually did what they did last week: There's no place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29717]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one message for those cowards, the killers that actually did what they did last week: There's no place you could hide; there's no place in this region where it's going to be safe for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my integrity I'll wrap me up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50274]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my integrity I'll wrap me up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46587]]></link><description><![CDATA[God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2175]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62710]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/354]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He Just Can't Quit Her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35338]]></link><description><![CDATA[He Just Can't Quit Her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.   - George Colman ("The Younger"), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.   - George Colman ("The Younger"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew there was going to be some serious hitting going on, but I tell you what. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew there was going to be some serious hitting going on, but I tell you what.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen. [Lat., Illa dolet vere qui sine teste dolet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18337]]></link><description><![CDATA[She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen. [Lat., Illa dolet vere qui sine teste dolet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62815]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62390]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I consider how my light is spent  Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8154]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I consider how my light is spent  Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,  And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present  My true account, lest He returning chide,  "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need  Either man's work, or His own gifts. Who best  Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed,  And post o'er land and ocean without rest;  They also serve who only stand and wait.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5810]]></link><description><![CDATA[To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43045]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Petroc, Abbot of Padstow, 6th century  Wherever the missionary character of the doctrine of election is forgotten; wherever it is forgotten that we are chosen in order to be sent; wherever the minds of believers are concerned more to probe backwards from their election into the reasons for it in the secret counsel of God, than to press forward from their election to the purpose of it, ... that they should be Christ's ambassadors and witnesses to the ends of the earth, wherever men think that the purpose of election is their own salvation rather than the salvation of the world: then God's people have betrayed their trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16207]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at Liv Tyler and think "It's not fair," because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5121]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2054]]></link><description><![CDATA[As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2054</guid></item></channel></rss>