<?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[Art thou a friend to Roderick? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46467]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather be a dog and bay the moon Than such a Roman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54412]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather be a dog and bay the moon Than such a Roman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has a great fastball (62 mph), but she has developed a couple of other pitches to where she throws ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38140]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has a great fastball (62 mph), but she has developed a couple of other pitches to where she throws a curve, drop and rise. She has made the move offensively to a left-handed slap hitter and now a left-handed hitter who can hit it over your head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London is the clearing-house of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25452]]></link><description><![CDATA[London is the clearing-house of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59488]]></link><description><![CDATA[You play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46695]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. [Lat., Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem delabamur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is better than revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is better than revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am leaning toward business courses, when I am in college full time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am leaning toward business courses, when I am in college full time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And see all sights from pole to pole, / And glance, and nod, and bustle by; / And never once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42223]]></link><description><![CDATA[And see all sights from pole to pole, / And glance, and nod, and bustle by; / And never once possess our soul / Before we die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31623]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27468]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have now done so much for so long with so little, we are now capable of doing anything with nothing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, what more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380   O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, what more could you give me than yourself? You are the fire that burns without being consumed; you consume in your heat all the soul's self-love; you are the fire which takes away cold; with your light you illuminate me so that I may know all your truth. Clothe me, clothe me with yourself, eternal truth, so that I may run this mortal life with true obedience, and with the light of your most holy faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46493]]></link><description><![CDATA[That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46017]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a tough problem, and there is no simple answer or smoking gun. More likely, there are multiple causes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31902]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a tough problem, and there is no simple answer or smoking gun. More likely, there are multiple causes, and they may vary from species to species.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a really unique opportunity to swim a huge river like this. It's a sensational thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a really unique opportunity to swim a huge river like this. It's a sensational thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42774]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From where the sun now stands I will fight no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43746]]></link><description><![CDATA[From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32662]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is always afraid of change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is always afraid of change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10726]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A reduction in green fees has helped, and when the weather is good, it's also a factor. There have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39890]]></link><description><![CDATA[A reduction in green fees has helped, and when the weather is good, it's also a factor. There have been times when the weather hasn't been the greatest, and we feel it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  Here in Pilgrim's Progress there is the ultimate human nostalgia for the City of God, which is the restless heart's true home. And even the cynical, the unbelieving and half-believing reader who goes with Christian to the end of the road must be a little shaken, may tremble to see something like a gate and also some of the glory of the place, and, glimpsing something of the company within the golden gates, may wish himself among them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a continual quest for an ever-receding Holy Grail]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree?  The eye that contemplates it well perceives   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19585]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree?  The eye that contemplates it well perceives   Its glossy leaves    Ordered by an Intelligence so wise     As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think, or be damned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think, or be damned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!  Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!  Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures,   He lays for us the pillows straight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61783]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth,  And the brook cries like a child! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth,  And the brook cries like a child!   Not a rainbow shines to cheer us;    Ah! the sun comes never near us,     And the heavens look dark and wile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He doesn't take any days off. He's improved so much since he's been here. He's an incredible defensive player, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41036]]></link><description><![CDATA[He doesn't take any days off. He's improved so much since he's been here. He's an incredible defensive player, and his offense keeps getting better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart  To keep a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart  To keep a dream or grave apart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will be possible to settle all the remaining problems]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25321]]></link><description><![CDATA[A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One type of rice nourishes one hundred types of people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65727]]></link><description><![CDATA[One type of rice nourishes one hundred types of people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3892</guid></item></channel></rss>