<?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[Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45735</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[He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4343]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always hope. So far we've been OK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41706]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always hope. So far we've been OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  We must always speak of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14787]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26897]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I want back is what I wasBefore the bed, before the knife,Before the brooch-pin and the salveFixed me in this parenthesis;Horses fluent in the wind,A place, a time gone out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53665]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59640]]></link><description><![CDATA[This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;  For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,   Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;    And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,     The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear      To stop the air would hurt them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth is likely to be lower in '98 than it was in '97. So, to re-balance monetary policy, you're going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth is likely to be lower in '98 than it was in '97. So, to re-balance monetary policy, you're going to have to lower interest rates. The question is by how much? At this point in time, probably a decrease of half a percentage point to three-quarters of a percentage point would make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes. -Clare Boothe Luce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong of his hands, and strong on his legs, but still of his tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong of his hands, and strong on his legs, but still of his tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want them to be productive in the community, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want them to be productive in the community,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53887]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55087]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12351]]></link><description><![CDATA[In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27169]]></link><description><![CDATA[I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but instead, we must strive to love others and our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18721]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but instead, we must strive to love others and our own happiness will come of thier satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deo et Patriae [For God and country] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deo et Patriae [For God and country]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indecision may or may not be my problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indecision may or may not be my problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs more to doe ill then to doe well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49558]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs more to doe ill then to doe well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither accorded him a superior status to sustain his confidence nor made it easy for him to acquire an unquestioned sense of social usefulness. For he derives his sense of usefulness mainly from directing, instructing, and planning- from minding other people's business- and is bound to feel superfluous and neglected where people believe themselves competent to manage individual and communal affairs, and are impatient of supervision and regulation. A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's sense of worth. Any social order that can function with a minimum of leadership will be anathema to the intellectual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is the best possible cure for dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is the best possible cure for dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of two evils I have chose the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of two evils I have chose the least.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool! Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe?  Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool! Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe?  Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule   Pursue thy fellows still with jest and jibe:    Wit, sophist, songster, Yorick of thy tribe;     Thou sportive satirist of Nature's school;      To thee the palm of scoffing we ascribe,       Arch-mocker and mad abbot of misrule!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the supreme law of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had A LOT of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31839]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had A LOT of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's just enough to smile sincerely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32384]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56211]]></link><description><![CDATA[One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.   - William Hazlitt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10438]]></link><description><![CDATA[When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20174]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always a fun game to watch. Two good programs go out and it's a battle like it was tonight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38213]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always a fun game to watch. Two good programs go out and it's a battle like it was tonight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you...If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it. -Emmet Fox.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against stealing, and had a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve. [The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, afriend, an aquaintance, or a stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, afriend, an aquaintance, or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their [the waiters'] eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pâté, Whitstable oysters, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their [the waiters'] eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pâté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes. - The Rising Gorge, 1961.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27814</guid></item></channel></rss>