<?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[Three brothers, three fortresses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three brothers, three fortresses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you recently, but many times I hear your thoughts. Good friends must not always be together. It is the feeling of oneness, when distant that proves a lasting]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A drummer is usually like the backbone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A drummer is usually like the backbone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60927]]></link><description><![CDATA[He ceased; but still their trembling ears retained The deep vibrations of his witching song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16876]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the odds so long as the fire of souls is kindled at the taper of conwiviality, and the wing of friendship never moults a feather?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'Tis all we have left to prize.  A cup to the dead already,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ho! stand to your glasses steady! 'Tis all we have left to prize.  A cup to the dead already,--   Hurrah for the next that dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5096]]></link><description><![CDATA[He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19149]]></link><description><![CDATA[To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy! eldest-born of hell! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy! eldest-born of hell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the perfect opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38702]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the perfect opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are declining to discuss the details of the bargaining. We're doing our bargaining at the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are declining to discuss the details of the bargaining. We're doing our bargaining at the table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite the cold weather, more than 2,000 concerned New Yorkers are taking part in HOPE 2006 and will be surveying ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite the cold weather, more than 2,000 concerned New Yorkers are taking part in HOPE 2006 and will be surveying city streets, parks and other public spaces to count the number of street homeless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What thin partitions sense from thought divide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55108]]></link><description><![CDATA[What thin partitions sense from thought divide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17956]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17826]]></link><description><![CDATA[People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn't mean I know you'll never go, Only that I wish you didn't have to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,--  'Tis said thy blithesome song was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54340]]></link><description><![CDATA[On fair Britania's isle, bright bird, A legend strange is told of thee,--  'Tis said thy blithesome song was hushed   While Christ toiled up Mount Calvary,    Bowed 'neath the sins of all mankind;     And humbled to the very dust      By the vile cross, while viler men       Mocked with a crown of thorns the Just.        Pierced by our sorrows, and weighed down         By our transgressions,--faint and weak,          Crushed by an angry Judge's frown,           And agonies no word can speak,--            'Twas then, dear bird, the legend says             That thou, from out His crown, didst tear              The thorns, to lighten the distress               And ease the pain that he must bear,                While pendant from thy tiny beak                 The gory points thy bosom pressed,                  And crimsoned with thy Saviour's blood                   The sober brownness of thy breast!                    Since which proud hour for thee and thine.                     As an especial sign of grace                      God pours like sacramental wine                       Red signs of favor o'er thy race!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a single living patient was left in the hospital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a single living patient was left in the hospital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2299]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had higher expectations and the kids had higher expectations, but realistically we had a lot of kids that were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39950]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had higher expectations and the kids had higher expectations, but realistically we had a lot of kids that were just playing their second year of varsity basketball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace arise from beyond the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63007]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace arise from beyond the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came here today to listen and learn and report back to the president. I'm prepared ... to go back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came here today to listen and learn and report back to the president. I'm prepared ... to go back and report to the president that these folks have done a great job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make any gain some outlay is necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50895]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make any gain some outlay is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have seen Sunshine and rain at once--her smiles and tears  Were like, a better way: those happy smilets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56689]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have seen Sunshine and rain at once--her smiles and tears  Were like, a better way: those happy smilets   That played on her ripe lip seemed not to know    What guests were in her eyes, which parted thence     As pearls from diamonds dropped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21845]]></link><description><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of thestars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not about avoiding fish. It is about paying attention to the types and amount of fish you eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32908]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not about avoiding fish. It is about paying attention to the types and amount of fish you eat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know with our heads that the Bible and the Gospel have a bearing -- sooner or later -- upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6568]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know with our heads that the Bible and the Gospel have a bearing -- sooner or later -- upon every issue in life, every problem, every relationship, every practice. But is it not true that in our hearts we are afraid that the full-orbed, unfiltered revelation of God will disturb some custom, some privilege, some status by which we benefit in society, occupation, or government? And knowing that we are profiting by the blood, sweat, and tears of the many, we feel wrath rising in us whenever it is proposed that religion touches the thing in question.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55309]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for all time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55309</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[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was something deep down inside I wanted to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37957]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was something deep down inside I wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31748]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter a plea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're focusing on particular works films, books, pieces of music, architecture that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40289]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're focusing on particular works films, books, pieces of music, architecture that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because they're icons, people don't look below the fact of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. 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 compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not one nights ice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not one nights ice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12343]]></link><description><![CDATA[American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They had one of their low performances. We really took a few steps backward - steps we couldn't afford to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36502]]></link><description><![CDATA[They had one of their low performances. We really took a few steps backward - steps we couldn't afford to take.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly fishing is a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly fishing is a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16286</guid></item></channel></rss>