<?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[Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Father and His Two DaughtersA man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Father and His Two DaughtersA man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to a tile-maker. After a time he went to the daughter who had married the gardener, and inquired how she was and how all things went with her. She said, All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish, that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be well watered. Not long after, he went to the daughter who had married the tilemaker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied, I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be dried. He said to her, If your sister wishes for rain, and you for dry weather, with which of the two am I to join my wishes?'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36468]]></link><description><![CDATA[In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If rates keep going higher, that will pose some problems to sizeable chunks of the stock market, particularly financials and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31067]]></link><description><![CDATA[If rates keep going higher, that will pose some problems to sizeable chunks of the stock market, particularly financials and other areas that are interest-rate sensitive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46100]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12525]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris,  And her father assures me each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris,  And her father assures me each time she was there   That she and her friend Mrs. Harris . . .    Spent six consecutive weeks, without shopping     In one continuous round of shopping,-- . . .      And yet, though scarce three months have passed since the day       This merchandise went on twelve carts, up Broadway,        This same Miss McFlimsey of Madison Square         The last time we met was in utter despair          Becasue she had nothing whatever to wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["There is no God," the foolish saith,  But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7439]]></link><description><![CDATA["There is no God," the foolish saith,  But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith  In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school,  By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, "God be pitiful,"  Who ne'er said, "God be praised.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2862]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66218]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated--too low down, a perfect choke-damp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated--too low down, a perfect choke-damp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It conflicts directly with the mission of the church to assist people who come to us and are in need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It conflicts directly with the mission of the church to assist people who come to us and are in need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ronnie gave us the spark we needed. I think he's starting to understand what we're telling him. Hopefully, this was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ronnie gave us the spark we needed. I think he's starting to understand what we're telling him. Hopefully, this was a glimpse of the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roof is completely gone and there are some floors that are collapsing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34393]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roof is completely gone and there are some floors that are collapsing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not anything I know which hath done more mischief to Religion... than the disparaging of Reason, under pretense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8300]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not anything I know which hath done more mischief to Religion... than the disparaging of Reason, under pretense of respect and favour to it. For hereby the very Foundations of Christian Faith have been undermined, and the World prepared for Atheism. And if Reason must not be beard, the Being of a God, and the Authority of Scripture, can neither be proved nor defended; and so our Faith drops to the Ground like a House that hath no Foundation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11825]]></link><description><![CDATA[A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hacer mal viene ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hacer mal viene de natural cosecha, facilmente se aprende el hacerle.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42677]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't know if this will be the shareholders' choice, or a political choice. For the steel industry, this is Microsoft buying Apple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56608]]></link><description><![CDATA[What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2157]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearts letter is read in the eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearts letter is read in the eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This deal with Iran is probably the most apparent thing driving prices up. But you don't know what is happening ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41242]]></link><description><![CDATA[This deal with Iran is probably the most apparent thing driving prices up. But you don't know what is happening behind the scenes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laywers, I suppose, were children once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laywers, I suppose, were children once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultimately we think she'll be exonerated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ultimately we think she'll be exonerated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To choose time is to save time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14593]]></link><description><![CDATA[To choose time is to save time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12711]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52523]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hast comes not alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hast comes not alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had my days. I had good support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had my days. I had good support.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gwen was not there to deceive anyone. She had the right to live honestly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gwen was not there to deceive anyone. She had the right to live honestly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this is heaven to no one else but me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After it's all said and done, we usually have a couple thousand left, and we donate that to the Anacortes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37671]]></link><description><![CDATA[After it's all said and done, we usually have a couple thousand left, and we donate that to the Anacortes Boys and Girls Club.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37671</guid></item></channel></rss>