<?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[Nature never says one thing and wisdom another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26881]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/148]]></link><description><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47474]]></link><description><![CDATA[In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55463]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even in France,Until this morning and this snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple is better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26544]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58139]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.  Wisdom and goodness they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17674]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.  Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools   Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore.    This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules:     'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19689]]></link><description><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're relying on him to have a good year. He worked hard in the off-season. He didn't play basketball. He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35537]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're relying on him to have a good year. He worked hard in the off-season. He didn't play basketball. He's throwing the ball harder and is in better shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62471]]></link><description><![CDATA[YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMYANK.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63918]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59346]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Smith and his penny both are black. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Smith and his penny both are black.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The town was given a pretty clear message that it needed a new site. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39679]]></link><description><![CDATA[The town was given a pretty clear message that it needed a new site.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obviously, it's not a good situation. Nobody wants to see [a work stoppage] happen, and it's always looming over in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obviously, it's not a good situation. Nobody wants to see [a work stoppage] happen, and it's always looming over in the corner that we may not be playing hockey. And that scares me more then anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She must temper her anger and frustration. We have work too hard to lose the public relations battle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38909]]></link><description><![CDATA[She must temper her anger and frustration. We have work too hard to lose the public relations battle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is often times a lot of speculation about what is the real belief college students have about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40255]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is often times a lot of speculation about what is the real belief college students have about the war in Iraq, and we're trying to give people that sort of information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16791]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6022]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a complete stretch to get it to do that, which saved the mission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31984]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a complete stretch to get it to do that, which saved the mission.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,  All are needed by each one; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,  All are needed by each one;   Nothing is fair or good alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47558]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday: when I am at Milan I do not. Do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54395]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday: when I am at Milan I do not. Do the same. Follow the custom of the church where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16220]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never escape the will of the mob; about the best anyone has ever figured out how to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never escape the will of the mob; about the best anyone has ever figured out how to do is herd them into voting booths.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of popularity holds you in a vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of popularity holds you in a vice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we knowin order to find out what we do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we knowin order to find out what we do not know....Hence, to think creatively, wemust be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12067]]></link><description><![CDATA[All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52677]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7347]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps   To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. Deem not I shall awake Him! On these deeps   Peace reigns, like that the Blessed know on high. To Hope, the vovage seems one little day;   Faith's hand shall soon the veil between remove; 'Tis Charity that swells my sail alway.     I live of love!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. -All 's Well that Ends Well. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55727]]></link><description><![CDATA[The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26492</guid></item></channel></rss>