<?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[My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19904]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52842]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59577]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48516]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you. [Lat., Miserum est opus,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61299]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you. [Lat., Miserum est opus,  Igitur demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tedet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12685]]></link><description><![CDATA[No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Am I always to be a mere listener? Shall I never reply? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Am I always to be a mere listener? Shall I never reply?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in bed for two days. Today is the first day I've actually eaten or done anything. I felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37139]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in bed for two days. Today is the first day I've actually eaten or done anything. I felt pretty good on the ice, but I don't have much energy. Hopefully tomorrow I'll feel better and get a good skate in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who hesitates is probably right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21438]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who hesitates is probably right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10638]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without danger we cannot get beyond danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm excited to be part of this generation. Good for Candace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm excited to be part of this generation. Good for Candace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always enjoyed learning, and we accomplish a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always enjoyed learning, and we accomplish a lot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50246]]></link><description><![CDATA[He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought it might be fun to have twins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought it might be fun to have twins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am still watching you as well Mr. Whitey!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deep slumber of a decided opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44930]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deep slumber of a decided opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from gay cities, and the ways of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from gay cities, and the ways of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23939]]></link><description><![CDATA[To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. -Ken Burns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not as though we have something to announce, because we don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32874]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not as though we have something to announce, because we don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pardon him as God shall pardon me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16518]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pardon him as God shall pardon me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Moo-cow-moo's got a tail like a rope En it's ravelled down where it grows,  En it's just like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Moo-cow-moo's got a tail like a rope En it's ravelled down where it grows,  En it's just like feeling a piece of soap   All over the moo-cow's nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands me to go upstairs, and covetousness to come down. Vices, I see, are as well contrary to themselves as to virtue. Free me, Lord, from this distracted case; fetch me from being sin's servant to be Thine, whose "service is perfect freedom," for Thou art but one, and ever the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   Visit, I beseech thee, O Lord, this habitation with thy mercy, and me with thy grace and salvation. Let thy holy angels pitch their tents round about and dwell here, that no illusion of the night may abuse me, the spirits of darkness may not come near to hurt me, no evil or sad accident oppress me; and let the eternal Spirit of the Father dwell in my soul and body, filling every corner of my heart with light and grace. Let no deed of darkness overtake me; and let thy blessing, most blessed God, be upon me for ever, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58962]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27126]]></link><description><![CDATA[God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48281]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Light Up My Life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39326]]></link><description><![CDATA[You Light Up My Life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Jesus, priceless treasure, source of purest pleasure  Truest friend to me; Long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Jesus, priceless treasure, source of purest pleasure  Truest friend to me; Long my heart has panted, till it well-nigh fainted,  Thirsting after Thee. Thine I am, O spotless Lamb; I will suffer naught to hide Thee,  Ask for naught beside Thee. In Thine arm I rest me; foes who would molest me  Cannot reach me here. Though the earth be shaking, every heart be quaking,  God dispels our fear. Sin and hell in conflict fell With their heaviest storms assail us:  Jesus will not fail us. Hence, all thoughts of sadness! For the Lord of gladness,  Jesus, enters in: Those who love the Father, though the storms may gather,  Still have peace within; Yes, whate'er we here must bear, Still in Thee lies purest pleasure,  Jesus, priceless treasure!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26567]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26567</guid></item></channel></rss>