<?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[True is it that we have seen better days. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55655]]></link><description><![CDATA[True is it that we have seen better days. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green,  O lily bursting white,   Dear lily of delight,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25087]]></link><description><![CDATA[O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green,  O lily bursting white,   Dear lily of delight,    Spring in my heart agen     That I may flower to men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is just part of the big picture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is just part of the big picture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is space and time measured by the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is space and time measured by the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll let the racket do the talking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll let the racket do the talking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary goal of a vendor is to make money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59692]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they've been hurt before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16794]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far the distribution is going on well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34828]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far the distribution is going on well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent  Are quiet trees and the green, listening sod; Hushed are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6460]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent  Are quiet trees and the green, listening sod; Hushed are the stars, whose power is never spent;  The hills are mute: yet, how they speak of God!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every game we had was important to stay in the hunt. We knew how important the games were. It wasn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every game we had was important to stay in the hunt. We knew how important the games were. It wasn't until about the last game that we could relax a little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15069]]></link><description><![CDATA[In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine by defect, and delicately weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine by defect, and delicately weak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57029]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41608]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speake not of my debts, unlesse you meane to pay them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speake not of my debts, unlesse you meane to pay them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56112]]></link><description><![CDATA[At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A crier of green sauce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10141]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crier of green sauce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell you for an eternal truth that troubled souls are always safe. It is the untroubled that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell you for an eternal truth that troubled souls are always safe. It is the untroubled that are in danger. Trouble in itself is always a claim on love, and God is love. He must deny Himself if He does not come to help the helpless. It is the prisoners, and the blind, and the leper, and the possessed, and the hungry, and the tempest-tossed, who are His special care. Therefore if you are lost and sick and bound, you are just in the place where He can meet you. Blessed are the mourners. They shall be comforted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again  In minds made better by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20858]]></link><description><![CDATA[O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again  In minds made better by their presence; live   In pulses stirred to generosity,    In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn     For miserable aims that end with self.      In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,       And with their mild persistence urge man's search        To vaster issues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[our day will come is another way of saying you get yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14500]]></link><description><![CDATA[our day will come is another way of saying you get yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed  As, God be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed  As, God be thanked! I do not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58128</guid></item></channel></rss>