<?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[So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace,  That I shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18766]]></link><description><![CDATA[So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace,  That I shall think it a most plenteous crop   To glean the broken ears after the man    That the main harvest reaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never Explain - your Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44796]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61263]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65482]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill;  I could not hear the brook flow,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4925]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill;  I could not hear the brook flow,   The noisy wheel was still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's in the reaction of others that perfection is found in the flawed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46242]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's in the reaction of others that perfection is found in the flawed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62364]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. [Lat., Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix;  Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26322]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining gifts that took all eyes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All limits are self imposed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20662]]></link><description><![CDATA[All limits are self imposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/589]]></link><description><![CDATA[If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose,  Should trust our necks to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47853]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose,  Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was able to go to Iraq.. to the place my son died..and fill my promise to my wife to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18225]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was able to go to Iraq.. to the place my son died..and fill my promise to my wife to put a crucifix onthe spot.. and bring home some of the blooddrenched dirt..and plant a white rose bush in itMilitary Families Speak Out.. broadcast on C Span.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et  Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro   Appone.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49568]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their hearts sweat with undivulged guilt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's shooting about 90 percent from the free throw line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33766]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's shooting about 90 percent from the free throw line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just have to get as ready as I can be for that match. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just have to get as ready as I can be for that match.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Flies and the Honey-PotA number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Flies and the Honey-PotA number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves. Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's outstanding experience and expertise in business banking will be a tremendous asset to our business clients and Bremer employees. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36957]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's outstanding experience and expertise in business banking will be a tremendous asset to our business clients and Bremer employees. He is the ideal person for this position, and I am thrilled to welcome David to Bremer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I crave hungrily to be used to show the way of liberty to a soul in bondage, instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7958]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I crave hungrily to be used to show the way of liberty to a soul in bondage, instead of caring only that it be delivered; if I nurse my disappointment when I fail, instead of asking that another the word of release may be given, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.  Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother picked on me when I was younger, ... I guess it started when I was about 7 or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38048]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother picked on me when I was younger, ... I guess it started when I was about 7 or 8 years old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazen helm of daffodillies, With a glitter toward the light.  Purple violets for the mouth,   Breathing perfumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brazen helm of daffodillies, With a glitter toward the light.  Purple violets for the mouth,   Breathing perfumes west and south;    And a sword of flashing lilies,     Holden ready for the fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This I ever held worse that all certitude,  To know not what the worst ahead might be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60021]]></link><description><![CDATA[This I ever held worse that all certitude,  To know not what the worst ahead might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was our season tonight. We had to lay it on the line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37607]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was our season tonight. We had to lay it on the line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14410]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55227]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45612]]></link><description><![CDATA[May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18004]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23274]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/649</guid></item></channel></rss>