<?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[Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself,  'Enough, enough, and die.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself,  'Enough, enough, and die.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,  For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,  For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs,   The title is affeered!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The itch of disputing is the scab of the Church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The itch of disputing is the scab of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being in charge of a lot of people like that, it's a hard thing to do, so it has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in charge of a lot of people like that, it's a hard thing to do, so it has a pretty big significance. His dad has to do everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62546]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15054]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28739]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours that's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17129]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October's foliage yellows with his cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44901]]></link><description><![CDATA[October's foliage yellows with his cold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an interesting character, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39842]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an interesting character,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never been an intellectual but I have this look. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46404]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60199]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:  The prince my brother hath outgrown me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18402]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:  The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who as down the stairs she jumps  Sings o'er the hill and far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43421]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who as down the stairs she jumps  Sings o'er the hill and far away,   Despising doleful dumps.   - Unattributed Author,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a house broke? So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not  One friend to take his fortune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a house broke? So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not  One friend to take his fortune by the arm   And go along with him?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45944]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with laughter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A century or so since, they spoke of sharing our Lord with the heathen, and the world rocked with laughter at so crazy a scheme, with the Church joining loudly in the merriment. Yet today, who laughs now? We ought to be the gladdest and the most exultant people in the world; for we have found the key to our difficulties, and it turns; have come on a solution of life's problems, and it works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted.  There are some you love, I know;   Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kisses kept are wasted; Love is to be tasted.  There are some you love, I know;   Be not loath to tell them so.    Lips go dry and eyes grow wet     Waiting to be warmly met,      Keep them not in waiting yet;       Kisses kept are wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59918]]></link><description><![CDATA[How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11240]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   Be not angry that you cannot make others as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the grounds will seem bare. It will change the park. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the grounds will seem bare. It will change the park.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you sound like Vera Duckworth you will face prejudice in business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40057]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you sound like Vera Duckworth you will face prejudice in business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61063]]></link><description><![CDATA[No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evening words are not like to morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evening words are not like to morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45032]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there's going to be a lot of changes. We've been building a database and we now have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30528]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there's going to be a lot of changes. We've been building a database and we now have a much better picture of species distribution throughout the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59150]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll tell you. We were playing little bit to passively. We were a lot more aggressive in the fourth quarter. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40324]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll tell you. We were playing little bit to passively. We were a lot more aggressive in the fourth quarter. We've got to start playing passionately from the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41621]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To understand is to perceive patterns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2038]]></link><description><![CDATA[To understand is to perceive patterns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12423]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me take you a button-hole lower. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me take you a button-hole lower. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62097]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is a search for a final and irrefutable demonstration that our absolute truth is indeed the one and only truth. The proselytizing fanatic strengthens his own faith by converting others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much easier is it to be generous than just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17267]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much easier is it to be generous than just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability is of little account without opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability is of little account without opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48147]]></link><description><![CDATA[No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48147</guid></item></channel></rss>