<?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[Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be a huge political change within eight months and someone really huge is going to come in behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32096]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be a huge political change within eight months and someone really huge is going to come in behind Stephen Harper in support of him and it will surprise Canadians. I had a dream a couple of years ago about Harper living at 24 Sussex and I still maintain that he's going to take the majority one day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly!  Have you a dream for going.   Or are you the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gray sail against the sky, Gray butterfly!  Have you a dream for going.   Or are you the blind wind's blowing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're well away from that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're well away from that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you been drinkin jack and coke all morning. she can make you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17465]]></link><description><![CDATA[a beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you been drinkin jack and coke all morning. she can make you feel high, for the single greatest comodity known to man - promise. promise of a better day, promise of a greater hope, promise of a new tomorrow. this particular aura, can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl, in her smile, in her soul, and the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like its gonna be ok]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here,  Blest fishers were; and fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16099]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon Him here,  Blest fishers were; and fish the last   Food was, that He on earth did taste:    I therefore strive to follow those,     Whom He to follow Him hath chose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist He is my Altar, I His holy place; I am His guest, and He my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Luke the Evangelist He is my Altar, I His holy place; I am His guest, and He my living food; I'm His by penitence, He is mine by grace; I'm His by purchase, He is mine by blood; He's my supporting elm, and I His vine: Thus I my Best-beloved's am; thus He is mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40971]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the benefit of data or issuance, the impetus to extend those gains is limited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the benefit of data or issuance, the impetus to extend those gains is limited.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51084]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This speaks well of our kids to play hard and make their way to the finals, ... All the kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29382]]></link><description><![CDATA[This speaks well of our kids to play hard and make their way to the finals, ... All the kids played with lots of desire, hustle and Badger spirit all day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires more courage to suffer than to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58224]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires more courage to suffer than to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is brave is free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16654]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is brave is free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in souls a sympathy with sounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58517]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63752]]></link><description><![CDATA[There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62536]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!  But 'twas not love which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61923]]></link><description><![CDATA[On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!  But 'twas not love which heaved her breast,   Fair child!--it was the bliss within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony, Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither--  They had been fou for weeks thegither! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16762]]></link><description><![CDATA[His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony, Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither--  They had been fou for weeks thegither!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, especially if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't disagree that if you're ill you should be able to get marijuana and decrease your pain, especially if you're critically ill. Our stand here is that we are torn between federal and state law. We don't want to violate federal law and go along with the state law, so we are making dispensaries illegal until they get the laws in order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why;  Would shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25961]]></link><description><![CDATA[They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why;  Would shake hands with a king upon his throne,   And think it kindness to his majesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is well said again, And 't is a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56037]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is well said again, And 't is a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beat all your feathers as flat as pancakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19537]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have very high expectations for him. That's why when he's not winning a major, he's in a slump. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38620]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have very high expectations for him. That's why when he's not winning a major, he's in a slump. If we go much longer without him winning a major, another year or two, it could be a problem. If he were to go into a true slump, not making cuts, not winning, having his rankings fall out of a top 10, I'd start worrying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Horas non numero nisi serenas." There stands in the garden of old St. Mark  A sun dial quaint and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58313]]></link><description><![CDATA["Horas non numero nisi serenas." There stands in the garden of old St. Mark  A sun dial quaint and gray.   It takes no heed of the hours which in dark    Pass o'er it day by day.     It has stood for ages amid the flowers      In that land of sky and song.       "I number none but the cloudless hours,"        Its motto the live day long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the standing jokes of Congress is that the new Congressman always spends the first week wondering how he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9758]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the standing jokes of Congress is that the new Congressman always spends the first week wondering how he got there and the rest of the time wondering how the other members got there]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64636]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50772]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more highminded a man is the more easily is his anger appeased.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On top of this, it's a good idea to take up references. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36402]]></link><description><![CDATA[On top of this, it's a good idea to take up references.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The angel of spring, the mellow-throated nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65673]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60980]]></link><description><![CDATA[... the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have art in order not to die of the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63656]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have art in order not to die of the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls.  A noise of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2794]]></link><description><![CDATA[My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls.  A noise of falling weights that never fell,   Weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand,    Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door,     And bolted doors that open'd of themselves;      And one betwixt the dark and light had seen       Her, bending by the cradle of her babe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2794</guid></item></channel></rss>