<?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[A sheep in sheep's clothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11522]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sheep in sheep's clothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slanders are like flies, that pass all over a man's good parts to light on his sores.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would place economic restrictions on the property owners themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would place economic restrictions on the property owners themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in souls a sympathy with sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58517]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less;--still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46554]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36570]]></link><description><![CDATA[She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23229]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55057]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46606]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot,  And so be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot,  And so be pedestaled in triumph?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talke much and erre much, saies the Spanyard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18085]]></link><description><![CDATA[From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The facts of life are very stubborn things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The facts of life are very stubborn things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These elections will fail by themselves. Political parties inside the country won't attend this farce. Chad's citizens, with the current ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28743]]></link><description><![CDATA[These elections will fail by themselves. Political parties inside the country won't attend this farce. Chad's citizens, with the current loaded environment, won't be going out to vote, even just to say no to Deby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28743</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[There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/75]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/75</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much of anything is bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much of anything is bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12493]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding and disregarding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53996]]></link><description><![CDATA['Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding and disregarding gay lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  A knowledge of the Bible without a college ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873  A knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a knowledge of the Bible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have times of uncertainty, it's a time to take less risk, not more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have times of uncertainty, it's a time to take less risk, not more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground,  And the far-off stream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45344]]></link><description><![CDATA[When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground,  And the far-off stream is dumb,   And the whirring sail goes round,    And the whirring sail goes round;     Alone and warming his five wits,      The white owl in the belfry sits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't pay to be the good guy, I guess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39667]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't pay to be the good guy, I guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the perfect opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38702]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the perfect opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been below average in a lot of places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30682]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been below average in a lot of places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and beneath,   Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires    And gleaming columns radiant in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is nothing Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32384]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46226]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any combination of alcohol and gasoline is very unforgiving of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any combination of alcohol and gasoline is very unforgiving of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, forthat determines our success or failure. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22633]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, forthat determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact maydefeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by thefact because you think you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would live to study, and not study to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would live to study, and not study to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. [Fr., Le temps fuit, et nous traine avec soi:  Le moment ou je parle est deja loin de moi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart With pity that doth make me sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5354]]></link><description><![CDATA[O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart With pity that doth make me sick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64808]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kabira wept when he beheld the millstone roll, Of that which passes 'twixt the stones, nought goes forth whole.   - Edward B. Eastwick,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15392</guid></item></channel></rss>