<?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['Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11277]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church, rightly conceived, is the whole covenant people called to serve in the world. The clergy are also part of the laity, and their true function is to help equip the laity to be the Servant People. If they turn aside to rule and to secure their own status, they have betrayed the calling of the special ministry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm relieved knowing the baby is back and relieved that [the suspect] is behind bars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm relieved knowing the baby is back and relieved that [the suspect] is behind bars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of difficulties grow miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of difficulties grow miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43585]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they flow,   That can no comfort bring,    That can, that can no comfort bring,     With those exciting scenes will blend,      O'er pleasure's pathway thrown;       But mem'ry is the only friend        That grief can call its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a lady says to an eager lover he may write in the wind, or in running water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50802]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a lady says to an eager lover he may write in the wind, or in running water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their nature and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38357]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must adopt loathsome diseases for our familiar associates, or we shall never be thoroughly acquainted with their nature and dispositions; we must risk, nay even injure, our own health in order to be able to preserve or restore that of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see a catalyst to move prices much higher in the short term. Iran's not likely to cut exports ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39166]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see a catalyst to move prices much higher in the short term. Iran's not likely to cut exports anytime soon. We've had very warm weather this winter and have built gasoline supplies despite refiners operating at reduced rates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26182]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47232]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherin he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just get him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29446]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just get him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures which he dispenses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures which he dispenses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of breath to no purpose, in doing much doing nothing. A race (of busybodies) hurtful to itself and most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of breath to no purpose, in doing much doing nothing. A race (of busybodies) hurtful to itself and most hateful to all others. [Lat., Gratis anhelans, multa agendo nihil agens.  Sibi molesta, et aliis odiosissima.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird took from that crown one thorn.   To soothe the dear Redeemer's throbbing head,    That bird did what she could; His blood, 'tis said,     Down dropping, dyed her tender bosom red.      Since then no wanton boy disturbs her nest;       Weasel nor wild cat will her young molest;        All sacred deem the bird of ruddy breast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26064]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer - into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55404]]></link><description><![CDATA[What 's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  What knowledge of Jesus Christ and His teaching lay behind the flash of enlightenment it is now impossible for us to say: but it is clear that the God whom Paul met was the "Father" of Jesus' own Gospel parables, the Shepherd who goes after the one sheep until He finds it. It was the God, in fact, whom the whole of the life of Jesus set forth, to the astonishment of those among whom He moved. Loving still, He brought God to men in the same unmistakable way. The divine love that through Jesus had found the public an Zacchaeus had now through the risen Christ found Paul the Pharisee. Hence forward the central facts of life for Paul were that while he was yet a sinner God had found and forgiven him, and that this was the work of Jesus Christ, in whose love the love of God had become plain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought our defense was just outstanding. That was a team that rushed for 350 yards against Hawaii. The defense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31713]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought our defense was just outstanding. That was a team that rushed for 350 yards against Hawaii. The defense won the game for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58205]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride. [Ger., Setzen wir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride. [Ger., Setzen wir Deutschland, so zu sagen, in den Sattel! Reiten wird es schon konnen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forever is composed of nows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forever is composed of nows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Flies and the Honey-PotA number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Flies and the Honey-PotA number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves. Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50080]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one--  And those who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56759]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one--  And those who live as models for the mass   Are singly of more value than they all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63029]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody basically gets behind Wood. You have to stay with him. The pack separated pretty early. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody basically gets behind Wood. You have to stay with him. The pack separated pretty early.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse;  Like gypsies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who, to patch up his fame--or fill his purse-- Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse;  Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known,   Defacing first, then claiming for his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A place for everything, everything in its place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45273]]></link><description><![CDATA[A place for everything, everything in its place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4508]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - The Heart's Domain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it\'s a dichotomy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14136]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, do nowt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51045]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, do nowt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.  [Ger., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.  [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,   Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10706]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10706</guid></item></channel></rss>