<?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 am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16911]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13728]]></link><description><![CDATA[They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past -Nathaniel Hawthorne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6100]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is never permanent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is never permanent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words pay no debts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words pay no debts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always count the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always count the cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40888]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the GrasshopperAn Ass having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the GrasshopperAn Ass having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, The dew. The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more merit, the less affection ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more merit, the less affection]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope future studies will reveal any potential positive or negative effects. We plan to use several animal models to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35669]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope future studies will reveal any potential positive or negative effects. We plan to use several animal models to address these questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We changed (defenses) and when we get out of pressure we look terrible, but I thought we did a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38604]]></link><description><![CDATA[We changed (defenses) and when we get out of pressure we look terrible, but I thought we did a good job against a pretty good team in terms of scrambling. I was very disappointed in our intensity in the first half. I thought we played a real poor first half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25172]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents  The armorers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents  The armorers accomplishing the knights,   With busy hammers closing rivets up,    Give dreadful note of preparation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3873]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44427]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46777]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11484]]></link><description><![CDATA[Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  Sorrow for sin and sorrow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535  Sorrow for sin and sorrow for suffering are ofttimes so twisted and interwoven in the same person -- yea, in the same sigh and groan -- that sometimes it is impossible for the party himself so to separate and divide them in his own sense and feeling, as to know which proceeds from the one and which from the other. Only the all-seeing eye of an infinite God is able to discern and distinguish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All you must do is accecpt all that is unaccecptable to you. -Cheri Huber. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58383]]></link><description><![CDATA[All you must do is accecpt all that is unaccecptable to you. -Cheri Huber.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9415]]></link><description><![CDATA[All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is once borne, once must dy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is once borne, once must dy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/282]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20378]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18890]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeming genial, venial fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeming genial, venial fault.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. [The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. [The wearer knows best where the shoe pinches.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles   The desire for unity has haunted me all my life through; I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles   The desire for unity has haunted me all my life through; I have never been able to substitute any desire for that, or to accept any of the different schemes for satisfaction of that men have desired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.'  And since, methinks, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18401]]></link><description><![CDATA['Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.'  And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,   Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day;  Lies worse; and while it says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day;  Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest   With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11590]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20457]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread,  And they brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57146]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread,  And they brought back bodies of living men,   But their eyes were fold and dead.    So, Buddy no matter what else the fame,     No matter what else the prize,      I want you to come back thru The Flame       With the boy-look still in your eyes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed  A place of drear extent, before him sees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59620]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed  A place of drear extent, before him sees   A river rushing swiftly toward the deep,    And all its tossing current white with foam,     And stops and turns, and measures back his way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After supper walk a mile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48622]]></link><description><![CDATA[After supper walk a mile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44148]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear is to conquer our fate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15384]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear is to conquer our fate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15384</guid></item></channel></rss>