<?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[Nuclear waste is a heavy burden to lay on our children and their children and their children's children and their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nuclear waste is a heavy burden to lay on our children and their children and their children's children and their children's children's children and their children's children's children's children...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. [Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. [Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les defauts de ses qualites.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, we have this positive confluence of earnings and economic news that has been propelling the market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, we have this positive confluence of earnings and economic news that has been propelling the market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry, Safe in the inner fold;  And maybe they hear, and wonder why, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry, Safe in the inner fold;  And maybe they hear, and wonder why,   And marvel, out in the cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not funky but a more stylish look for women, almost reminiscent of the Audrey Hepburn era. And we're not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not funky but a more stylish look for women, almost reminiscent of the Audrey Hepburn era. And we're not abandoning the basics. We're trying to show people that we're about more than just basics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63853]]></link><description><![CDATA[All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that the more a person learns, the more they find there is to learn. Therefore the smarter you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22894]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that the more a person learns, the more they find there is to learn. Therefore the smarter you think you are, the dumber you really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66222]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lorenzo, If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,  Become a Christian and thy loving wife! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6172]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lorenzo, If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,  Become a Christian and thy loving wife!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62427]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56875]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank you for nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank you for nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OUR SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS  Often, though not always, they work in inadequate buildings, with limited budgets, with insufficient backing from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6541]]></link><description><![CDATA[OUR SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS  Often, though not always, they work in inadequate buildings, with limited budgets, with insufficient backing from church officers, with indifferent support from parents, and at times even under a minister who cares for none of these things. Usually the workers themselves have had insufficient training for the job they are asked to perform. And always they work in a secularized culture, in the midst of spiritual illiteracy, where the most commonplace terms in the Bible and the most elemental ideas concerning the Kingdom of God sound strange even to otherwise well-educated adults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a leaf moved. Everything was gray. All the houses were the same one color. There were no squirrels, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a leaf moved. Everything was gray. All the houses were the same one color. There were no squirrels, no birds. If you saw something move, it was either a dog or a cat. They clung onto trees. We would bark like dogs and the dogs would bark back at us. I took a speakerphone to amplify my voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65701]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ire of a despotic king Rides forth upon destruction's wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51105]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ire of a despotic king Rides forth upon destruction's wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the officers, soldiers and security personnel are asked not to abide by these decisions and to consider them null ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41285]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the officers, soldiers and security personnel are asked not to abide by these decisions and to consider them null and void.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65497]]></link><description><![CDATA[All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50988]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you keep at it, one day something which at first appeared impossible will become merely something very difficult indeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62514]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you keep at it, one day something which at first appeared impossible will become merely something very difficult indeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53816]]></link><description><![CDATA[When iron scourge, and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus lived His life in complete dependence upon God, as we all ought to live our lives. But such dependence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus lived His life in complete dependence upon God, as we all ought to live our lives. But such dependence does not destroy human personality. Man is never so fully and so truly personal as when he is living in complete dependence upon God. This is how personality comes into its own. This is humanity at its most personal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61143]]></link><description><![CDATA[To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52299]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft as some song divine, thy story flows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft as some song divine, thy story flows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .  To that dry drudgery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . .  To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . .   Sabbathless Satan!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red;  Gradual tints, as when there glows   In snowy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red;  Gradual tints, as when there glows   In snowy milk the bashful rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61323]]></link><description><![CDATA[A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61323</guid></item></channel></rss>