<?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[Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird,  Who lets it hop a little from her hand,   Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,    And with a silk thread plucks it back again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That makes it a lot more exciting for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35442]]></link><description><![CDATA[That makes it a lot more exciting for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5996]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46107]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61647]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill wind that bloweth no man good-- The blower of which blast is she.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just like you wouldn't give a book to someone who doesn't know how to read, don't give your heart to someone who doesn't know how to love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, Chicago's a great town; what can I say? It has a lot of diversity. You can find so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, Chicago's a great town; what can I say? It has a lot of diversity. You can find so many different kinds of people there. It breeds a certain self-confidence and a willingness to work hard for what you want. I don't know, maybe they put something in the water -- the river is green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The national assembly should draft the permanent constitution within a period ending by August 22. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The national assembly should draft the permanent constitution within a period ending by August 22.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now in his Palace of the West, Sinking to slumber, the bright Day,  Like a tired monarch fann'd to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now in his Palace of the West, Sinking to slumber, the bright Day,  Like a tired monarch fann'd to rest,   'Mid the cool airs of Evening lay;    While round his couch's golden rim     The gaudy clouds, like courtiers, crept--      Struggling each other's light to dim,       And catch his last smile e'er he slept.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two sparrows on one Ear of Corn make an ill agreement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63447]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm just extremely happy to win the championship with the second quickest car, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34880]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm just extremely happy to win the championship with the second quickest car,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a test of trust-building. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40299]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a test of trust-building.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 Commemoration of Edward Bouverie Pusey, Priest, tractarian, 1882  If the heart is devoted to the mirage of the world, to the creature instead of the Creator, the disciple is lost... However urgently Jesus may call us, His call fails to find access to our hearts. Our hearts are closed, for they have already been given to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - "Trees". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27864]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - "Trees".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face  Lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55325]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a good poet's made, as well as born, And such wast thou! Look how the father's face  Lives in his issue; even so the race   Of Shakespeare's mind and manner brightly shine    In his well-turned and true-filed lines;     In each of which he seems to shake a lance,      As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waight and measure take away strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waight and measure take away strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3963]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace begins with a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace begins with a smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you hit a shot at the end of a quarter or a half, that gives you a lot of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31278]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you hit a shot at the end of a quarter or a half, that gives you a lot of momentum if the game is close. Rochester played us tough and made a lot of shots they needed to. We needed to dig down deep and play well defensively to get some stops.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19158]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other. [Lat., Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam,  Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendit, facit:   Nihilominus ipsi luceat, cum illi accenderit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28881]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted 'Merry Christmas,' even though nobody felt merry. The silence ended early in the afternoon and the killing started again. It was a short peace in a terrible war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colby had a good game, and that was big for him, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colby had a good game, and that was big for him,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er  We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19767]]></link><description><![CDATA["Farewell!" For in that word--that fatal word--howe'er  We promise--hope--believe--there breathes despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20093</guid></item></channel></rss>