<?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[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60912]]></link><description><![CDATA[His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits.  The two extremes appear like man and wife   Coupled together for the sake of strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41595]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9047]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14974]]></link><description><![CDATA[The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobly he yokes A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh  Was that it was for not being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobly he yokes A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh  Was that it was for not being such a smile;   The smile mocking the sigh that it would fly    From so divine a temple to commix     With winds that sailors rail at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Maxims.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48575]]></link><description><![CDATA[And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11052]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness  That even above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness  That even above the smiles and frowns of fate   Exalts great Nature's favourites: a wealth    That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is not a thing; it is a way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is not a thing; it is a way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just see it as another guy trying to get what I'm trying to get, a win for our team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just see it as another guy trying to get what I'm trying to get, a win for our team. I treat it like a battlefield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear and uncertainty, both in things spiritual and things temporal, or civil. Whilst men are under the power of actual impressions from such fears, they will convert to God, yea, they will turn in a moment, and perfect their holiness in an instant; but so soon as that impression wears off (as it will do on every occasion, and upon none at all) such persons are as dead and cold towards God as the lead or iron, which but now ran in a fiery stream, is now when the heat is departed from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All learned, and all drunk! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22916]]></link><description><![CDATA[All learned, and all drunk!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24369]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over her hung a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold,  But of a substance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over her hung a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold,  But of a substance, though not animate,   Yet of a heavenly and spiritual mould,    That only eyes of spirits might behold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Clinton Administration has seemed to put more concern on scoring political points than advancing serious reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Clinton Administration has seemed to put more concern on scoring political points than advancing serious reform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The PeopleSoft drama is just that: drama and chatter. Investors need to adjust their antennas and focus on the underlying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The PeopleSoft drama is just that: drama and chatter. Investors need to adjust their antennas and focus on the underlying fundamentals of the business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mistakes show us what we need to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mistakes show us what we need to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light; . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Red velvet roomrolls me in its mouthand swallows me to sleep**. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Red velvet roomrolls me in its mouthand swallows me to sleep**.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fighter has to know fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44340]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fighter has to know fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16832]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19169]]></link><description><![CDATA[In man's most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63478]]></link><description><![CDATA[All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26254]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest;  And she that doth most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24098]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest;  And she that doth most sweetly sing,   Sings in the shade when all things rest:    In lark and nightingale we see     What honor hath humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30352]]></link><description><![CDATA[just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me and my family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30352</guid></item></channel></rss>