<?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[My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57284]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I had a soul above buttons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23783]]></link><description><![CDATA[My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49391]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64683]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress cannot be organized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress cannot be organized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46593]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the parent of cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the parent of cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't put the key of your happiness in someone elses pocket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22261]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43613]]></link><description><![CDATA[A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40938]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On me, on me Time and change can heap no more!  The painful past with blighting grief   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18333]]></link><description><![CDATA[On me, on me Time and change can heap no more!  The painful past with blighting grief   Hath left my heart a withered leaf.    Time and change can do no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  To worship is to quicken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, and to devote the will to the purpose of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12382]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,  May all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,  May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling,   Silent as though they watched the sleeping Earth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. Byron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64626]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age,  People are apt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/689]]></link><description><![CDATA[And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age,  People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth,   And wonder Providence is not more sage.    Adversity is the first path to truth:     He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage,      Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty,       Has won experience which is deem'd so weighty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future influences the present just as much as the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future influences the present just as much as the past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. -The Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62627]]></link><description><![CDATA[But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged,  Or singular and rash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66409]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it.It's kind of fun to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew it had to come to an end sooner or later. I was just always hoping it was later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew it had to come to an end sooner or later. I was just always hoping it was later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57006]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to stop at 3 feet and let it set a little, see how it looks along the seams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30188]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to stop at 3 feet and let it set a little, see how it looks along the seams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55395]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just thrilled to have her, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just thrilled to have her,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56571]]></link><description><![CDATA[In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economy is weakening and we're going to see more of the effects of that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38036]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economy is weakening and we're going to see more of the effects of that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was real pleased how we held our composure, and I'm disappointed we couldn't come out with a win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was real pleased how we held our composure, and I'm disappointed we couldn't come out with a win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better do nothing than do ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better do nothing than do ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24928</guid></item></channel></rss>