<?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[Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sound must seem an echo to the sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sound must seem an echo to the sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25307]]></link><description><![CDATA['Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves?' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he. - Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide?  Years have not seen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! were I sever'd from thy side, Where were thy friend and who my guide?  Years have not seen, Time shall not see   The hour that tears my soul from thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4603]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy,  A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy,  A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60320]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the suppressed word is dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the suppressed word is dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43130]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or our worthlessness, we are almost impervious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or our worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter worthlessness can be a source of courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24653]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is full of good wishes or desires. [Fr., L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is full of good wishes or desires. [Fr., L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontes ou desirs.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were the fastest cars produced in 1987. Faster even than the Corvette. That's what made them famous. Everybody who's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34891]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were the fastest cars produced in 1987. Faster even than the Corvette. That's what made them famous. Everybody who's ever driven one of those cars is impressed with its speed and handling. To this day, there are all kinds of shootouts between the Grand Nationals and Mustangs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worker is being treated at the hospital for non-life threatening injuries. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worker is being treated at the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43356]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides, you know Prosperity's the very bond of love,  Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together   Affliction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides, you know Prosperity's the very bond of love,  Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together   Affliction alters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,   And make use of your wings while you may.    . . . .     But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,      They at last found it dangerous play;       Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,        Only dazzle to lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20621]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59035]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can throw away the privilege of acting, but that would be such a shame. The tribe has elected you to tell its story. You are the shaman/healer, that's what the storyteller is, and I think it's important for actors to appreciate that. Too often actors think it's all about them, when in reality it's all about the audience being able to recognize themselves in you. The more you pull away from the public, the less power you have on screen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like port because it's got a really interesting flavour - it's rich. There are quite a lot of liqueurs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39990]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like port because it's got a really interesting flavour - it's rich. There are quite a lot of liqueurs with fruit flavours but nothing quite like port.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion wehold of ourselves with the appalling things that other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion wehold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think aboutus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of the secret, supernatural communications, the light and call of God. That is why spiritual books bear such different meanings for different types and qualities of soul, why each time we read them they give us something fresh, as we can bear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have absolutely no pen-raised birds on the Armstrong Ranch. It goes to the issue of sportsmanship. These are completely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39556]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have absolutely no pen-raised birds on the Armstrong Ranch. It goes to the issue of sportsmanship. These are completely wild birds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think and that is all that I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21503]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think and that is all that I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six years--six little years--six drops of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six years--six little years--six drops of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The girls have worked hard and earned the right to play at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41929]]></link><description><![CDATA[The girls have worked hard and earned the right to play at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12865]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9811]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear conscience is a soft pillow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, - the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -Horace Mann.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth,  And the brook cries like a child! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roads are wet where'er one wendeth, And with rain the thistle bendeth,  And the brook cries like a child!   Not a rainbow shines to cheer us;    Ah! the sun comes never near us,     And the heavens look dark and wile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whither art thou rushing to destruction? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whither art thou rushing to destruction?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3022</guid></item></channel></rss>