<?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 celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private (crime, riot, vigilanteism) or public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force- either private (crime, riot, vigilanteism) or public (authoritarianism).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64529]]></link><description><![CDATA[My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If our common life is not a common course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6928]]></link><description><![CDATA[If our common life is not a common course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47253]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is the place where it feels right to walk around without shoes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is the place where it feels right to walk around without shoes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19602</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[Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is fear that has said its prayers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confound the cats! All cats--alway-- Cats of all colours, black, white, grey;  By night a nuisance and by day-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confound the cats! All cats--alway-- Cats of all colours, black, white, grey;  By night a nuisance and by day--   Confound the cats!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you read those petitions, some of them cry out that something very bad occurred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36948]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you read those petitions, some of them cry out that something very bad occurred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest ;man and to the gentleman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,  To the last syllable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51387]]></link><description><![CDATA[To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,  To the last syllable of recorded time,   And all our yesterdays have lighted fools    The way to dusty death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871   Knowing God is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871   Knowing God is more than knowing about Him; it is a matter of dealing with Him as He opens up to you, and being dealt with by Him as He takes knowledge of you. Knowing about Him is a necessary precondition of trusting in Him, but the width of our knowledge about Him is no gauge of our knowledge of Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1787]]></link><description><![CDATA[At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15346]]></link><description><![CDATA[You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58709]]></link><description><![CDATA[A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up until now, we've done little but complain. Until now, we've stood by, watching native habitat disappear, and with it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up until now, we've done little but complain. Until now, we've stood by, watching native habitat disappear, and with it wildlife of all types. Instead of doing something, we've come to accept our present situation as inevitable and tolerable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll have a short presentation. We just encourage anybody who is interested in the lake to attend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33557]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll have a short presentation. We just encourage anybody who is interested in the lake to attend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the twinkling of an eye. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55576]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the twinkling of an eye. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will swim without cork (without help). [Lat., Nabis sine cortice.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19163]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will swim without cork (without help). [Lat., Nabis sine cortice.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51955]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm happy the queen will be here when the government may fall. It's a great civics lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm happy the queen will be here when the government may fall. It's a great civics lesson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My desolation does begin to make A better life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53204]]></link><description><![CDATA[My desolation does begin to make A better life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never will desert Mr. Micawber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never will desert Mr. Micawber.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17231]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1156]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're keeping a very close eye on it, but at this point, nothing seems to point to the need for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40389]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're keeping a very close eye on it, but at this point, nothing seems to point to the need for a state response.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21197]]></link><description><![CDATA[They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56116]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11094]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really proud of what we've done ? and I say we because it's been the coaches and the community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38239]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really proud of what we've done ? and I say we because it's been the coaches and the community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was like a kid on Christmas morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was like a kid on Christmas morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...cops and reporters are much alike. Both are absolutely dedicated to doing the job at hand, regardless of obstacles. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44823]]></link><description><![CDATA[...cops and reporters are much alike. Both are absolutely dedicated to doing the job at hand, regardless of obstacles. And both, deep down, really believe the rules don't apply to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24650]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50862]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63767</guid></item></channel></rss>