<?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[Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust;  His soul is with the saints, I trust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword rust;  His soul is with the saints, I trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15567]]></link><description><![CDATA[O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23226]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a serial entrepreneur. Somebody stop him before he makes a killing again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23027]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a serial entrepreneur. Somebody stop him before he makes a killing again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25238]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is chewing gum for the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is chewing gum for the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down aninvitation to dinner without giving an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down aninvitation to dinner without giving an excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biography is one of the new terrors of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Biography is one of the new terrors of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment. [Fr., On est quelquefois un sot avec de ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23538]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment. [Fr., On est quelquefois un sot avec de l'esprit; mais on ne l'est jamais avec du jugement.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26793]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon,  And the imperial vot'ress passed on,   In maiden meditation, fancy-free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the fury of the patient man. -John Dryden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played awesome. This is the year he needs to break out and believe in his game. I believe he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37068]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played awesome. This is the year he needs to break out and believe in his game. I believe he hit a stepping stone in doing so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a high explosive bomb but at this stage we are still investigating the type of bomb, whether it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a high explosive bomb but at this stage we are still investigating the type of bomb, whether it was homemade or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. •Ecclesiasticus 34:2 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. •Ecclesiasticus 34:2]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27711]]></link><description><![CDATA[One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such to me is the new image of aging: growth in self and service for all mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worse than traitors in arms are the men who pretend loyalty to the flag, feast and fatten on the misfortunes of the Nation while patriotic blood is crimsoning the plains of the South and their countrymen moldering the dust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really psyched for O.A.R. They'll certainly be a hell of a lot better than Sonic Youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really psyched for O.A.R. They'll certainly be a hell of a lot better than Sonic Youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42857]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice President Dick Cheney is currently out in South Dakota on a three-day hunting trip. What better place for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice President Dick Cheney is currently out in South Dakota on a three-day hunting trip. What better place for a man who has had four heart attacks than to be carrying a big gun and a backpack through the snow looking for red meat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11094]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ready to be surprised ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ready to be surprised]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm always trolling for trivia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm always trolling for trivia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really not worried about it. We're going to start the game and see how it's going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31878]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really not worried about it. We're going to start the game and see how it's going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canst thou bind, the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canst thou bind, the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces  That which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3518]]></link><description><![CDATA[But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces  That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the present time, there are probably only a few areas in which one might be able to move forward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35512]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the present time, there are probably only a few areas in which one might be able to move forward by evidence-based benchmarks,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if there be an hereafter, And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd  And suffer'd to speak out, tells every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58236]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if there be an hereafter, And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd  And suffer'd to speak out, tells every man,   Then must it be an awful thing to die;    More horrid yet to die by one's own hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Across the noisy street I hear him careless throw  One warning utterance sweet;   Then faint at first, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Across the noisy street I hear him careless throw  One warning utterance sweet;   Then faint at first, and low,    The full notes closer grow;     Hard, what a torrent gush!      They pour, they overflow--       Sing on, sing on, O thrush!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That suggests that the size of the average house is stabilizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35894]]></link><description><![CDATA[That suggests that the size of the average house is stabilizing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Weak and imperfect men shall, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  Weak and imperfect men shall, notwithstanding their frailties and effects, be received as having pleased God, if they have done their utmost to please Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53702]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53702</guid></item></channel></rss>