<?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[I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low and behold, the Lord sent someone my way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Low and behold, the Lord sent someone my way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like many of the leaders and teacher [in the church], perhaps I failed to prepare people for the way of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like many of the leaders and teacher [in the church], perhaps I failed to prepare people for the way of suffering. I had not suffered much myself and did not help people to be ready for it. But the fact is: when you follow Jesus, what happened to Him happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That does not stop people in those relationships from going through legal means of getting for instance, health care power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39291]]></link><description><![CDATA[That does not stop people in those relationships from going through legal means of getting for instance, health care power of attorney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8879]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61395]]></link><description><![CDATA[These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42935]]></link><description><![CDATA[God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59264]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punctual tide draws up the bay, With ripple of wave and hiss of spray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/760]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still desiring, we live without hope. [It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still desiring, we live without hope. [It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are here on earth to do good to others. What the othersare here for, I don't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21690]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are here on earth to do good to others. What the othersare here for, I don't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Some men, not content with [Christ] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637   Some men, not content with [Christ] alone, are borne hither and thither from one hope to another; even if they concern themselves chiefly with him, they nevertheless stray from the right way in turning some part of their thinking in another direction. Yet such distrust cannot creep in where men have once for all truly known the abundance of his blessings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They have] bright management, they are cost conscious, they're lowering the costs all the time. They want to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28650]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They have] bright management, they are cost conscious, they're lowering the costs all the time. They want to be able to survive in between cycles. They're in what would be a very significant well, could be a billion barrel prospect within the next couple of months. My feeling is that the company will do much better as Wall Street gets to know it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35333]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not worth a button. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50998]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not worth a button.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a strong mind and a soft heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a strong mind and a soft heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bless God, America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bless God, America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is a feeble reed. [Fr., C'est un faible roseau que la prosperite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is a feeble reed. [Fr., C'est un faible roseau que la prosperite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rogues like these (a sparrow cries) To honours and employments rise,  I court no favor, ask no place, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10194]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rogues like these (a sparrow cries) To honours and employments rise,  I court no favor, ask no place,   For such preferment is disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AARP commends the Governor and the State Legislature for taking this unprecedented step in helping to ensure that New York's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40898]]></link><description><![CDATA[AARP commends the Governor and the State Legislature for taking this unprecedented step in helping to ensure that New York's most vulnerable citizens can stay warm this winter. With some people actually having to choose between filling their prescriptions and filling their oil tank, this funding couldn't have come at a better time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11798]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kind of panicked a little bit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33681]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kind of panicked a little bit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1194]]></link><description><![CDATA[No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That blessed word Mesopotamia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62030]]></link><description><![CDATA[That blessed word Mesopotamia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no small pleasure in sweet water. [Lat., Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61298]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no small pleasure in sweet water. [Lat., Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61783]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27564]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3237]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5557]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. -James Hillman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall; A mighty love within my breast has grown,  Unseen, unspoken, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25616]]></link><description><![CDATA[One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall; A mighty love within my breast has grown,  Unseen, unspoken, and of no one known;   And of my sweet, who gave it, least of all.    [Fr., Ma vie a son secret, mon ame a son mystere:     Un amour eternel en un moment concu.      La mal est sans remede, aussi j'ai du le taire,       Et elle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fugit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25963]]></link><description><![CDATA[What exile from his country is able to escape from himself? [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fugit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52139</guid></item></channel></rss>