<?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[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54728]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux,  Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. Stooping by the coffinlid waiting for something to rise as the something's always did. ImagineHis surprise, bellowing above the general noise, "Where is Effie? Shewas dead." Back to God in a tiny voice: "My name's Maybe."The first crumb said. The number two crumb picked up the song."Might, I'm called. I've done no wrong." Cried the third crumb,"I am Should. Here's our little brother Could and my big sisterWould. Don't punish us for we've been good." And the last crumb, withsome shame, whispered unto God, "My name is Must and with the others,we've been Effie, who isn't alive and never was. Cross the threshold haveno dread. Lift the sheet back in this way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15888]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2270]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls usually have a paper mâché face on their wedding day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls usually have a paper mâché face on their wedding day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we will not be able to reach agreements in the end, this constitution is going to be presented to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36224]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we will not be able to reach agreements in the end, this constitution is going to be presented to the Iraqis in an Oct. 15 referendum. Legally we do not need the parliament to vote on the draft, but we need only a consensus so that all the Iraqis will say yes to the constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force shites upon Reason's Back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force shites upon Reason's Back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaste as the icicle That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple. -Coriolanus. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaste as the icicle That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple. -Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fop? In this brave, licentious age To bring his musty morals on the stage?  Rhime us to reason? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16426]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fop? In this brave, licentious age To bring his musty morals on the stage?  Rhime us to reason? and our lives redress   In metre, as Druids did the savages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which he by hook or crook has gather'd And by his own inventions father'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which he by hook or crook has gather'd And by his own inventions father'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4508]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really don't want this to be goodbye. I'm not leaving anywhere. I'm still going to be around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really don't want this to be goodbye. I'm not leaving anywhere. I'm still going to be around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  I too had noticed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963  I too had noticed that our prayers for others flow more easily than those we offer on our own behalf. And it would be nice to accept your view that this just shows we are made to live by charity. I'm afraid, however, I detect two much less attractive reasons for the ease of my own intercessory prayers. One is that I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him. And the other is like unto it. Suppose I pray that you may be given grace to withstand your besetting sin (short list of candidates for this post will be forwarded on demand). Well, all the work has to be done by God and you. If I pray against my own besetting sin there will be work for me. One sometimes fights shy of admitting an act to be a sin for this very reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--  Some to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--  Some to kill canters in the musk-rose buds,   Some war with reremice for their leathren wings,    To make my small elves coats, and some keep back     The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders      At our quaint spirits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53741]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know." "We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55103]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal;  To be taken, to be seen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10662]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal;  To be taken, to be seen,   These have crimes accounted been.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the heritages from history which prevents us so often from seeing the Church, with all its greatness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6676]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the heritages from history which prevents us so often from seeing the Church, with all its greatness and misery, in its true light, is the distinction between the "empirical" and the "ideal" Church. It is to such a degree an element of our thinking that we hardly notice it. It has been since the first centuries a standard view, a means to give account of the, indeed, often disappointing state and quality of Christian faith and practice in the Church as it appeared. As such it is understandable; but nevertheless it proceeds more from the counsels of worldly wisdom than from the faith-as-response by which the Church should live, and the call to incessant renewal under which the Church stands as "God's own household", "growing into a holy temple in the Lord". However stubborn and refractory the stuff of ordinary reality may be -- and it is -- the Church, though with clear realism seeing this reality, can never permit itself to put the divine indicatives and imperatives, which are her peculiar directives and points of orientation, behind considerations which are properly speaking worldly in character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17226]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22425]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how tohandle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how tohandle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12692]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The unanimous decision upholds legislation passed eight years ago by lawmakers in British Columbia that allowed the province to seek ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35507]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The unanimous decision upholds legislation passed eight years ago by lawmakers in British Columbia that allowed the province to seek restitution for health care costs related to smoking for the last 50 years and for future costs.] We are very appreciative of this opportunity to hold the tobacco industry to account for its destructive products, ... That it was unanimous indicates the power of this ruling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2053]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes--  Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes--  Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me,   Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes:    I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ran there and when I got there, there were four or five boats looking in the water. I didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37653]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ran there and when I got there, there were four or five boats looking in the water. I didn't see anybody that looked like survivors. I didn't see anybody at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. -Love's Labour 's Lost. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55481]]></link><description><![CDATA[A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26984]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let each man have according to his deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let each man have according to his deserts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10943]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shock. Disbelief. This is a loss to the entire Jewish community. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shock. Disbelief. This is a loss to the entire Jewish community.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[lovers alone wear sunlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25792]]></link><description><![CDATA[lovers alone wear sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11470]]></link><description><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52685]]></link><description><![CDATA[People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone who's like Angelina Jolie because she isn't scared of not being pretty. She's my favourtie actress. I'd love a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone who's like Angelina Jolie because she isn't scared of not being pretty. She's my favourtie actress. I'd love a role like the one she played in 'Girl, Interrupted'. I've never met her.. I'd be so nervous! And star-struck!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54488]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France. Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54488</guid></item></channel></rss>