<?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[Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May  New blooming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May  New blooming blossoms 'neath the sun are born,   And all poor April's charms are swept away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65743]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like her because she smiles at me and means it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music inflames temperament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music inflames temperament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55168]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The anwser is no untill you ask the question. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The anwser is no untill you ask the question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. - The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52032]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. - The Heart's Domain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In violence, we forget who we are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60663]]></link><description><![CDATA[In violence, we forget who we are]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47796]]></link><description><![CDATA[The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody ever died of laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody ever died of laughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54049]]></link><description><![CDATA[That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19460]]></link><description><![CDATA[For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61120]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The song on its mighty pinions Took every living soul, and lifted it gently to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The song on its mighty pinions Took every living soul, and lifted it gently to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew we'd have to bring our 'A' game. But I never expected our best score in the state tournament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23004]]></link><description><![CDATA[The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves--the creature of habits and infirmities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13165]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be, and these are his words, 'the first President to lose a war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,  Lest I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,  Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so   Who art not missed by any that entreat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That father perished at the stake For tenets he would not forsake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48762]]></link><description><![CDATA[That father perished at the stake For tenets he would not forsake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929  I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, those spiritual repasts -- a grace before Milton, a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading [Spenser]?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/957]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are confident of advancing, but in this period of the season the physical condition is fading and surprise results ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30999]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are confident of advancing, but in this period of the season the physical condition is fading and surprise results can't be excluded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55037]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will name no country, but Germany is ready to move on the budget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29948]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will name no country, but Germany is ready to move on the budget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Keep clear of concealment -- keep clear of the need of concealment. It is an awful hour when the first necessity of hiding something comes. The whole life is different thenceforth. When there are questions to be feared and eyes to be avoided and subjects which must not be touched, the bloom of life is gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book might be written on the injustice of the just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A book might be written on the injustice of the just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps; Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;  She, while the lovely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps; Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;  She, while the lovely babe unconscious lies,   Smiles on her slumbering child with pensive eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28102]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54105]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's unfortunate these members put the party in this situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's unfortunate these members put the party in this situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should finish off the chances at this level. If you get in front of the goal three or four ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should finish off the chances at this level. If you get in front of the goal three or four times, what more do you need?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My quest these days is to find my long lost inner Luke (child), but I'm afraid if I do, I'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46205]]></link><description><![CDATA[My quest these days is to find my long lost inner Luke (child), but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44604</guid></item></channel></rss>