<?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[The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24842]]></link><description><![CDATA[The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb.  Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and fears.   Who then to frail mortality shall trust,    But limns the water, or but writes in dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45944]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the abilityand determination to overcome bad luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the abilityand determination to overcome bad luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27741]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34242]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14458]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60767]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never, ever stop playing hard no matter what. I couldn't be more proud of everything they've accomplished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33961]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never, ever stop playing hard no matter what. I couldn't be more proud of everything they've accomplished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fooles give to please all but their owne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fooles give to please all but their owne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17647]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26135]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would say our skill positions have some depth. We have some good, athletic kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would say our skill positions have some depth. We have some good, athletic kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is injury let me sow pardon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is injury let me sow pardon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot explicitly link the recent terrorist attacks to the September 11 hijackers, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38746]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot explicitly link the recent terrorist attacks to the September 11 hijackers,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over his patient, then and not till then to send for the minister, not so much to inquire into the man's condition and to give him suitable advice as to minister comfort and to speak peace to him at a venture. But let me tell you that herein you put an extremely difficult task upon us, in expecting that we should pour wine and oil into the wound before it be searched, and speak smooth and comfortable things to a man that is but just brought to a sense of the long course of a lewd and wicked life impenitently continued in. Alas! what comfort can we give to men in such a case? We are loth to drive them to despair; and yet we must not destroy them by presumption; pity and good nature do strongly tempt us to make the best of their case and to give them all the little hopes which with any kind of reason we can --and God knows it is but very little that we can give to such persons upon good ground, for it all depends upon the degree and sincerity of their repentance, which God only knows, and we can but guess at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth /the power to love /although I have put it last, is the rarest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as philosophy is the study of other people's misconceptions, so history is the study of other people's mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires  And introduces hunger, frost, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires  And introduces hunger, frost, and woe,   Where peace and hospitality might reign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.  [Ger., Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.  [Ger., Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46331]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions have vested interests just as men have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grew up competing with much larger institutions. They are very good at what they do and we knew that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38503]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grew up competing with much larger institutions. They are very good at what they do and we knew that we couldn't beat them at their game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55837]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far it is to God. A being outside our world would be a spectator, looking on but taking no part in this life, where we try to be brave despite all the bafflement. A god who created, and withdrew, could be mighty, but he could not be love. Who could love a God remote, when suffering is our lot? Our God is closer than our problems, for they are out there, to be faced; He is here, beside us, Emmanuel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27985]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day. - The Oracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11917]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our liberality should not exceed our ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our liberality should not exceed our ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate...before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts...but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30619]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a mystery to me,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.  One sees more devils than vast hell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.  One sees more devils than vast hell can hold;   That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic,    Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt.     The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,      Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;       And as imagination bodies forth        The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen         Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing          A local habitation and a name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25106]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. -Anita Roddick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amber in good faith always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amber in good faith always believed that Mr. Flores was her child's father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. [Lat., Ut adversas res, secundas immoderate ferre, levitatis est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25297]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell,  By slow Meander's margent green,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell,  By slow Meander's margent green,   And in the violet-embroidered vale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds  In loveliness of perfect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6142]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds  In loveliness of perfect deeds,   More strong than all poetic thoughts;    Which he may read that binds the sheaf,     Or builds the house, or digs the grave,      And those wild eyes that watch the waves       In roarings round the coral reef.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53902]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--  Look to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, then--our course is chosen--spread the sail-- Heave oft the lead, and mark the soundings well--  Look to the helm, good master--many a shoal   Marks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the Siren    Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44010</guid></item></channel></rss>