<?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[Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,  Christ-like is it for sin to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,  Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,   God-like is it all sin to leave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17767]]></link><description><![CDATA[You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13799]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45371]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10664]]></link><description><![CDATA[By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52119]]></link><description><![CDATA[All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears. [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina,  Si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant,   Gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60205]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that is really true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By hesitation the opportunity is often lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51587]]></link><description><![CDATA[By hesitation the opportunity is often lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54538]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5879]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4055]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was just a great game to watch. This is what Friday night football is all about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40878]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was just a great game to watch. This is what Friday night football is all about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11717]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got some shots on goal, not a lot of quality chances. It's one of those games where the team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got some shots on goal, not a lot of quality chances. It's one of those games where the team hangs in there. Their goaltender gives them a chance to win the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you have said I will consider; what you have to say  I will with patience hear, and find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9867]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you have said I will consider; what you have to say  I will with patience hear, and find a time   Both meet to hear and answer such high things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59116]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past,  That I may give for every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62158]]></link><description><![CDATA[In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past,  That I may give for every day   Some good account at last.   - Isaac Watts,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  It must be our anxious care, whenever we are ourselves pressed, or see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  It must be our anxious care, whenever we are ourselves pressed, or see others pressed by any trial, instantly to have recourse to God. And again, in any prosperity of ourselves or others, we must not omit to testify our recognition of God's hand by praise and thanksgiving. Lastly, we must in all our prayers carefully avoid wishing to confine God to certain circumstances, or prescribe to him the time, place, or mode of action. In like manner, we are taught by [the Lord's] prayer not to fix any law or impose any condition upon him, but leave it entirely to him to adopt whatever course of procedure seems to him best, in respect of method, time, and place. For, before we offer up any petition for ourselves, we ask that his will may be done, and by so doing place our will in subordination to his, just as if we had laid a curb upon it, that, instead of presuming to give law to God, it may regard him as the ruler and disposer of all its wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cripple in the right way may beat a racer in the wrong one. Nay, the fleeter and better the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52374]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cripple in the right way may beat a racer in the wrong one. Nay, the fleeter and better the racer is, who hath once missed his way, the farther he leaveth it behind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The importance of this big defeat, dramatic defeat is not only that they have lost areas, but they have lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The importance of this big defeat, dramatic defeat is not only that they have lost areas, but they have lost their main fighting force,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30742]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty and schools to work together for the good of the university.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Salt Merchant and His AssA peddler drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt. His road home lay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Salt Merchant and His AssA peddler drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt. His road home lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step, fell by accident and rose up again with his load considerably lighter, as the water melted the sack. The Peddler retraced his steps and refilled his panniers with a larger quantity of salt than before. When he came again to the stream, the Ass fell down on purpose in the same spot, and, regaining his feet with the weight of his load much diminished, brayed triumphantly as if he had obtained what he desired. The Peddler saw through his trick and drove him for the third time to the coast, where he bought a cargo of sponges instead of salt. The Ass, again playing the fool, fell down on purpose when he reached the stream, but the sponges became swollen with water, greatly increasing his load. And thus his trick recoiled on him, for he now carried on his back a double burden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta committi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How now, foolish rheum! -King John. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55794]]></link><description><![CDATA[How now, foolish rheum! -King John. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be creative. If people get an e-mail with a funny gimmick, they'll be more likely to pass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34599]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be creative. If people get an e-mail with a funny gimmick, they'll be more likely to pass it on and get involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Party honesty is party expediency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Party honesty is party expediency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hear every kind of story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33615]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hear every kind of story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My doctors offered us a free round of in vitro (fertilization), ... So after all this is over, if it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39238]]></link><description><![CDATA[My doctors offered us a free round of in vitro (fertilization), ... So after all this is over, if it doesn't work out, we have the money. We can adopt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63478]]></link><description><![CDATA[All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10235]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From our standpoint things have run pretty smoothly. We had all those bikes riding around in the rain (Saturday) night. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32886]]></link><description><![CDATA[From our standpoint things have run pretty smoothly. We had all those bikes riding around in the rain (Saturday) night. I would have anticipated more accidents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60670]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart;  If stranger, such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart;  If stranger, such no longer be;   If foe, our love shall conquer thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1841]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done. -Richard Needham.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44420]]></link><description><![CDATA[For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44420</guid></item></channel></rss>