<?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[Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,   Flatter, and but cheat our ear.    This doth put us still in mind     That our flesh must be resigned,      And, a general silence made,       The world be muffled in a shade.        [Orpheus' lute, as poets tell,         Was but moral of this bell,          And the captive soul was she,           Which they called Eurydice,            Rescued by our holy groan,             A loud echo to this tone.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knives are out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knives are out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're sort of like a little ballerina shoe, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35799]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're sort of like a little ballerina shoe,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53826]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.  [Lat., Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via.   Quem peonitet peccasse, paene est innocens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee,  That no revenue hast but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee,  That no revenue hast but thy good spirits   To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?    No, let the candied tongue like absurd pomp,     And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee      Where thrift may follow fawning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak;  That Latin was no more difficile  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak;  That Latin was no more difficile   That to a blackbird 'tis to whistle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43346]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels--local, State and Federal--in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels--local, State and Federal--in ending the pollution of our waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8951]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4009]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad behavior].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13249]]></link><description><![CDATA["Pray take them, Sir,--Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11846]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9964]]></link><description><![CDATA[When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the load commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61747]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the load commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/402]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American Baseball Coaches Association started All-American honors in that year. That was also the first year of the College ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American Baseball Coaches Association started All-American honors in that year. That was also the first year of the College World Series.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only understand friendship or scorched earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65229]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only understand friendship or scorched earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19355]]></link><description><![CDATA[History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the night Shows stars and women in a better light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44519]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse, As undertakers walk before the hearse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse, As undertakers walk before the hearse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45423]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Privilege is the greatest enemy of right ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Privilege is the greatest enemy of right]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel,  And, like a quiver'd nymph ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5792]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel,  And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen,   May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths,    Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds;     Where, through the sacred rays of chastity,      No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer,       Will dare to soil her virgin purity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5842]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God provides for him that trusteth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49274]]></link><description><![CDATA[God provides for him that trusteth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get them out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7477]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him. When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive. It is so with Christ. In this world our contact with Him is shadowy, for we can only see through a glass darkly. It is spasmodic, for we are poor creatures and cannot live always on the heights. But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59779]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59779</guid></item></channel></rss>