<?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[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead:  And in whatever state a man be thrown,   'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12282]]></link><description><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating, ... We've got to be able to invest in some incubators for change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29430]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is all very frustrating, ... We've got to be able to invest in some incubators for change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savage bears agree with one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savage bears agree with one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't  That sure th' have worn out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't  That sure th' have worn out Christendom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5528]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43681]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink;  Water, water, everywhere,   Nor any drop to drink. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink;  Water, water, everywhere,   Nor any drop to drink.    The very deep did rot: O Christ!     That ever this should be!      Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs       Upon the slimy sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15424]]></link><description><![CDATA[A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43871]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11313]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8885]]></link><description><![CDATA[My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are very pleased that our ships are making a difference in their lives and contributing to the recovery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42719]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are very pleased that our ships are making a difference in their lives and contributing to the recovery of New Orleans,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hours that make us happy make us wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hours that make us happy make us wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps;  The robes ye weave, another wears;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps;  The robes ye weave, another wears;   The arms ye forge, another bears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Squinting upon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre;  And, snuffing with a wrythed nose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Squinting upon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre;  And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber,   The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49963]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25516]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are fatal to caste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life so short, the craft so long to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life so short, the craft so long to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom adapts itself to expediency ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom adapts itself to expediency]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is never too old to yearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25796]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is never too old to yearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14248]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother;  Wits are gamecocks to one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother;  Wits are gamecocks to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my case, Sunday, I didn't know that a tornado was coming because I was watching Spanish TV. The only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31263]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my case, Sunday, I didn't know that a tornado was coming because I was watching Spanish TV. The only reason I learned that we had a tornado was because a friend warned me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8393]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, and we have, we've hit rock bottom, ... But if we all don't stand together, we're not going to stand back up. It's going to take all of us to put it back on track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give the historians something to write about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give the historians something to write about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago  On a throne of rocks, in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago  On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,   With a diadem of snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20017]]></link><description><![CDATA[We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must I hold a candle to my shames? -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must I hold a candle to my shames? -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11394]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18767]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more opportunities. Maybe it could have been like 63-55. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more opportunities. Maybe it could have been like 63-55.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61662]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you think that the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says that His yoke is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you think that the work God gives us to do is never easy? Jesus says that His yoke is easy, His burden is light. People sometimes refuse to do God's work just because it is easy. This is sometimes because they cannot believe that easy work is His work; but there may be a very bad pride in it... Some, again, accept it with half a heart and do it with half a hand. But however easy any work may be, it can nnot be well done without taking thought about it. And such people, instead of taking thought about their work, generally take thought about the morrow -- in which no work can be done, any more than in yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1669]]></link><description><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1669</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[The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest. -John V. Cheney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56349</guid></item></channel></rss>