<?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[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man,  And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;   This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,    And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knives are out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knives are out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My doctors offered us a free round of in vitro (fertilization), ... So after all this is over, if it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39238]]></link><description><![CDATA[My doctors offered us a free round of in vitro (fertilization), ... So after all this is over, if it doesn't work out, we have the money. We can adopt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gives to all, denies all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gives to all, denies all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   Jesus invites His saints   To meet around His board; Here pardon'd rebels sit and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maundy Thursday   Jesus invites His saints   To meet around His board; Here pardon'd rebels sit and hold   Communion with their Lord.   For food He give His flesh,   He bids us drink His blood; Amazing favor! matchless grace   Of our descending God!   This holy bread and wine   Maintains our fainting breath, By union with our living Lord   And interest in His death.   Let all our powers be join'd   His glorious name to raise; Pleasure and love fill every mind,   And every voice be praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10680]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughtercows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 monthsin which I rationalized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[West played really well. But I think we got a little ahead of ourselves, too . . . I hope ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39392]]></link><description><![CDATA[West played really well. But I think we got a little ahead of ourselves, too . . . I hope it was an eye-opener.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally I feel we've got the cart before the horse. We need to identify: Do we need to move the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally I feel we've got the cart before the horse. We need to identify: Do we need to move the town clerk's office?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning how to show kindness and express genuine love to yourself and others doesn't have to be easy for you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning how to show kindness and express genuine love to yourself and others doesn't have to be easy for you to know it's the right thing to always do..]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you say it is, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you say it is, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to a friend's house is never long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to a friend's house is never long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of Satan's shepherdesses caught And meant to stamp him with her master's mark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51709]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of Satan's shepherdesses caught And meant to stamp him with her master's mark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 From subtle love of softening things, From easy choices, weakenings, (Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 From subtle love of softening things, From easy choices, weakenings, (Not thus are spirits fortified; Not this way went the Crucified;) From all that dims Thy Calvary, 0 Lamb of God, deliver me. Give me the love that leads the way, The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire; Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54556]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49129]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daughter can see soon - when she is old enough to know what a movie is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son already knows how to program my phone. I think technology is good. ... They are learning the skills ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40527]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son already knows how to program my phone. I think technology is good. ... They are learning the skills they need at a much younger age. They have their own computers. They have it all. They're spoiled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the flower for which love is the honey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in grumbling it is the politest form of fighting known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9245]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in grumbling it is the politest form of fighting known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not yet reached a consensus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39008]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not yet reached a consensus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this is an issue that should not be politicized but has to be addressed with clinical objectivity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is an issue that should not be politicized but has to be addressed with clinical objectivity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53755]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47858]]></link><description><![CDATA[One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gain is gain, however small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17150]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gain is gain, however small.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Candidate Thomas is a sad, sad man, with only one desire: to reunite with his deceased ex-girlfriend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Candidate Thomas is a sad, sad man, with only one desire: to reunite with his deceased ex-girlfriend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18686]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17147</guid></item></channel></rss>