<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care,  Is none that with the little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the dwellings framed by birds In field or forest with nice care,  Is none that with the little wren's   In snugness may compare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus? [Lat., Stemmata quid faciunt, quid prodest, Pontice, longo,  Sanguine censeri pictosque ostendere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52137]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57463]]></link><description><![CDATA[If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11863]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2643]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CD is going to be with the organization for a long time. He will be a great adviser. He will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40686]]></link><description><![CDATA[CD is going to be with the organization for a long time. He will be a great adviser. He will remain an integral part of what we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not know who planted the explosive device and cannot speculate at this time, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34022]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not know who planted the explosive device and cannot speculate at this time,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're offering the suggestion that all penalties that are called should fall within the realm of instant replay. We suggest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30758]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're offering the suggestion that all penalties that are called should fall within the realm of instant replay. We suggest any penalties that are called be subject to review. After reviewing hundreds of plays, we feel it's time to expand on instant replay, since we have a system in place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66084]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34591]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1607]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Two PotsA river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass. The Earthen Pot said to the Brass Pot, Pray keep at a distance and do not come near me, for if you touch me ever so slightly, I shall be broken in pieces, and besides, I by no means wish to come near you. Equals make the best friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2176]]></link><description><![CDATA[For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13201]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Goodwin was an actor-man, Old Drury's pride and boast,  In all the light and spritely parts,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom Goodwin was an actor-man, Old Drury's pride and boast,  In all the light and spritely parts,   Especially the ghost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59431]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39643]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no easy way to bathe a hummingbird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:  Small have continual plodders ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks:  Small have continual plodders ever won,   Save base authority from others' books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Within a stone's throw of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Within a stone's throw of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22290]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, here her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high,  And many an eye has danced to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, here her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high,  And many an eye has danced to see   That banner in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1715]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If music and sweet poetry agree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43430]]></link><description><![CDATA[If music and sweet poetry agree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is to keep the officers out on the things that really need to be taken care of right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is to keep the officers out on the things that really need to be taken care of right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sick StagA sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sick StagA sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living. Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With power comes great responsibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54005]]></link><description><![CDATA[With power comes great responsibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   We must be willing to accept the bitter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If he's incompetent, which he is, then everything is put on hold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39134]]></link><description><![CDATA[If he's incompetent, which he is, then everything is put on hold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet thanks I must you con That you are thieves professed, that you work not  In holier shapes; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet thanks I must you con That you are thieves professed, that you work not  In holier shapes; for there is boundless theft   In limited professions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These instructions are making it very difficult if not impossible for defendants to prevail in these types of cases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38286]]></link><description><![CDATA[These instructions are making it very difficult if not impossible for defendants to prevail in these types of cases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw; I could not bringMy passions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26902]]></link><description><![CDATA[From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw; I could not bringMy passions from a common spring.From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow; I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone;And all I loved, I loved alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon, though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, Discomfort swells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51376]]></link><description><![CDATA[So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, Discomfort swells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10807]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23369]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is whatever distracts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is whatever distracts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26051</guid></item></channel></rss>