<?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["There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19045]]></link><description><![CDATA["There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, ". . . in the human heart that had better not be wibrated."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States. I always use the word "Union" or "Confederacy." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60130]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States. I always use the word "Union" or "Confederacy." We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30277]]></link><description><![CDATA[These other states, they don't let grass grow, so we've got to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Momentum is building for smoke-free measures around the region. It's just a matter of time before there is statewide legislation to ban smoking in restaurants and bars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46462]]></link><description><![CDATA[To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,  One flash ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25057]]></link><description><![CDATA[And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,  One flash of it within the Tavern caught   Better than in the temple lost outright.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before;  The danger o'er, both are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before;  The danger o'er, both are alike requited,   God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diamond cuts diamond. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diamond cuts diamond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50976</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any single verse of the Bible, taken in isolation, may actually be dangerous to your spiritual health. Every part of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any single verse of the Bible, taken in isolation, may actually be dangerous to your spiritual health. Every part of it must be read in relation to the whole message.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long,  And the stormy winds do blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61639]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the stormy winds do blow; When the battle rages loud and long,  And the stormy winds do blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, and I remind its security ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, and I remind its security forces of their obligation to use only minimum necessary force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  There are many people who... speak to God in prayer, but hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543  There are many people who... speak to God in prayer, but hardly ever listen to Him, or else listen to Him only vaguely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cold case will be brought back to full light. It'll be tough to prosecute but the Crown will succeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cold case will be brought back to full light. It'll be tough to prosecute but the Crown will succeed by March 12. It involves someone found in a forest, and it feels like the person is coming up on more than one charge. There's going to be lots of public controversy around this case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The events prove that Israel was neither a neighbor nor a peace partner. It is no more than an enemy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The events prove that Israel was neither a neighbor nor a peace partner. It is no more than an enemy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24793]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who foretells the future lies, even if he tells the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now I hear its voice again, And still its message is of peace,  It sings of love that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10809]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now I hear its voice again, And still its message is of peace,  It sings of love that will not cease,   For me it never sings in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54764]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence enough, but little wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence enough, but little wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ask, that I might waken reverence, And bid the cheek be ready with a blush  Modest as morning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ask, that I might waken reverence, And bid the cheek be ready with a blush  Modest as morning when she coldly eyes   The youthful Phoebus,    Which is that god in office, guiding men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small Latin, and less Greek. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Small Latin, and less Greek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. - All About Ourselves and Other Essays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, nature was his book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, nature was his book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing,  "At morn the cherry-blooms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13148]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think of the garden after the rain; And hope to my heart comes singing,  "At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,   And the Easter bells be ringing!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't have a perfect car in the race today. He drove like a true veteran. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42475]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't have a perfect car in the race today. He drove like a true veteran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34437]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea at first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29724]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming straight from junior college and just looking at me as a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the irrational season Where love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason There'd have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8317]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the irrational season Where love blooms bright and wild. Had Mary been filled with reason There'd have been no room for the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The physician heals, Nature makes well. [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The physician heals, Nature makes well. [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49374]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever goes there once goes back. If we stop going to feed and trap them, they're finished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever goes there once goes back. If we stop going to feed and trap them, they're finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50686]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the destination list of Washington, ... you'll have the MCI Center area, Georgetown and, now, boom, the South Capitol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29250]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the destination list of Washington, ... you'll have the MCI Center area, Georgetown and, now, boom, the South Capitol Street ballpark area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill! But let it whistle as it will,  We'll keep up Christmas merry still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose!  How blest to the toiler his hour of release   When the vesper is heard with its whisper of peace!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1049]]></link><description><![CDATA[When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27734]]></link><description><![CDATA[To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. - Reflections on Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54791]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea. [He that will learn to pray, let him go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49411]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will learne to pray, let him goe to Sea. [He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say,  Though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4859]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say,  Though a whole town's against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59356</guid></item></channel></rss>