<?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[Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and itbecomes available only when you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21078]]></link><description><![CDATA[What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and itbecomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which youknow exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quituntil you get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God always takes the simplest way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66761]]></link><description><![CDATA[God always takes the simplest way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63861]]></link><description><![CDATA[What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14819]]></link><description><![CDATA[He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)  I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving (U.S.)  I thank Thee, O Lord God, that though with liberal hand Thou hast at all times showered thy blessing upon our human kind, yet in Jesus Christ Thou hast done greater Things for us than Thou ever didst before:  Making home sweeter and friends dearer:  Turning sorrow into gladness and pain into the soul's victory:  Robbing death of its sting:  Robbing sin of its power Making peace more peaceful and joy more joyful and faith and hope more secure. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes,  Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes,  Lean sallow cheeks, long chin with beard supplied,   Poor crackling joints, and wither'd parchment hide,    As if old Drums, worn out with martial din,     Had clubb'd their yellow Heads to form her Skin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropist, 1231 Commemoration of Mechtild, Bèguine of Magdeburg, Mystic, Prophet, 1280  If He hath promised to make us happy, though He hath not particularly declared to us wherein this happiness shall consist, yet we may trust Him that made us, to find out ways to make us happy, and may believe that He who made us, without our knowledge or desire, is able to make us happy beyond them both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense and beauty have close connections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense and beauty have close connections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides,  Thou know'st, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4926]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns. The current that with gentle murmur glides,  Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage;   But when his fair course is not hindered,    He makes sweet music with th' enameled stones,     Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge,      He overtaketh in his pilgrimage.       And so by many winding nooks he strays        With willing sport to the wild ocean.         Then let me go and hinder not my course.          I'll be as patient as a gentle stream           And make a pastime of each weary step,            Till the last step have brought me to my love;             And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil              A blessed soul doth in Elysium.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a botanist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54822]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could remember the names of all these particles I'd be a botanist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans, American troops, and American's intelligence services, must get out of Iraq now, ... For two years, the Iraqi people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans, American troops, and American's intelligence services, must get out of Iraq now, ... For two years, the Iraqi people have suffered from the aftermath of a horrific war and occupation by America. The world is beginning to speak with one voice. We want that democracy in Iraq to succeed, and we know it cannot succeed so long as she is occupied by a foreign power and that power is America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The timing of the bombings was clearly designed to wreak the greatest level of havoc and carnage. They are an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30124]]></link><description><![CDATA[The timing of the bombings was clearly designed to wreak the greatest level of havoc and carnage. They are an attack on the democratic process and cannot be justified by any political cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fear of God before their eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17685]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fear of God before their eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4563]]></link><description><![CDATA[The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54072]]></link><description><![CDATA[When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit; sometimes so long, that there is no wit for so much room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We did this after school because we don't want people to talk bad about us. We're here for our education ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38017]]></link><description><![CDATA[We did this after school because we don't want people to talk bad about us. We're here for our education and our future. If we're not going to school, what's the point of all this?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wilful man maun hae his way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51078]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wilful man maun hae his way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the best one yet - it's the fourth and it means a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30001]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the best one yet - it's the fourth and it means a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1250]]></link><description><![CDATA[While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a stone there, That whoever kisses,  Oh! he never misses   To grow eloquent.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23052]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a stone there, That whoever kisses,  Oh! he never misses   To grow eloquent.    'Tis he may clamber     To a lady's chamber      Or become a member       Of Parliament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18243]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34949]]></link><description><![CDATA[[These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom: voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East.] The secret is out, ... There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A father in a canoein which his baby is seatedwalks more carefully than on land. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15171]]></link><description><![CDATA[A father in a canoein which his baby is seatedwalks more carefully than on land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard him yell at [All-America first baseman Aaron] Bates the other day. Not many people yell at Aaron Bates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34469]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard him yell at [All-America first baseman Aaron] Bates the other day. Not many people yell at Aaron Bates . That's when I knew Caleb Mangum had arrived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh  That filters through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh  That filters through the forest, or the gush   That swells and sinks amid the branches high,--    'Tis all the music of the wind, and we     Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flat burglary as ever was committed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flat burglary as ever was committed. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three,  Climb up here to pray;   Burghers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54582]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three,  Climb up here to pray;   Burghers and dames, at summer's prime,    Ride out to church from Chamberry,     Dight with mantles gay,      But else it is a lonely time       Round the Church of Brou.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24677]]></link><description><![CDATA[A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Might does not make right, it only makes history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Might does not make right, it only makes history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IPPA supports new processing opportunities and what we believe those opportunities will bring to producers. We look forward to supporting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35423]]></link><description><![CDATA[IPPA supports new processing opportunities and what we believe those opportunities will bring to producers. We look forward to supporting Trim-Rite in their efforts to build a new state of the art facility here in Illinois.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14637]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand Some random bud will meet;  Thou canst not tread, but thou wilt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stoop where thou wilt, thy careless hand Some random bud will meet;  Thou canst not tread, but thou wilt find   The daisy at thy feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53323]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53323</guid></item></channel></rss>