<?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[Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone;  He, just as you,   Would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone;  He, just as you,   Would toy and woo,    He would chirp and flatter me,     He would hang the wing awhile,      Till at length he saw me smile,       Lord! how sullen he would be!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do your best work when you’re having fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62470]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do your best work when you’re having fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is theplace where no one else has even been. You have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is theplace where no one else has even been. You have to leave the city of yourcomfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you willdiscover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3363]]></link><description><![CDATA[The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These comments have provoked significant feedback from community football leagues and umpiring associations across Australia, all reporting dismay within their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28450]]></link><description><![CDATA[These comments have provoked significant feedback from community football leagues and umpiring associations across Australia, all reporting dismay within their umpiring ranks about being able to retain numbers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5065]]></link><description><![CDATA[criminal, n. A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53528]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write them, above all, in your heart; there they can be neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write them, above all, in your heart; there they can be neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're hoping for is to come up with a generalized plan of how people want to see the town develop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love dance. We want everybody, dancers and non-dancers alike, to have access to this beautiful art form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33310]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love dance. We want everybody, dancers and non-dancers alike, to have access to this beautiful art form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1624]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like his parents, Tristan is a fighter and we know they are going to get through this. Although the chemotherapy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like his parents, Tristan is a fighter and we know they are going to get through this. Although the chemotherapy treatment is a good way to bring leukemia into remission, doctors and experts alike have said the best chances of survival lie with a successful bone marrow transplant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31235</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[Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won\'t admit it, he always gets angry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66594]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is wrong and won\'t admit it, he always gets angry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is terrible except fear itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is terrible except fear itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we learn on the track, we put into the cars. Everything is evolutionary. We work hard to have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we learn on the track, we put into the cars. Everything is evolutionary. We work hard to have the pieces come together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on;  'Twas not given for thee alone,   Pass it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on;  'Twas not given for thee alone,   Pass it on;    Let it travel down the years,     Let it wipe another's tears,      'Till in Heaven the deed appears--       Pass it on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12187]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46989]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is the very essence of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is the very essence of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign,  Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife,   And so turns wine to water back again.   - Richard Crashaw,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27340]]></link><description><![CDATA[The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed,  The holy bread, the food unpriced,   Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57746]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you believe their backgrounds? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you believe their backgrounds?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I 'll warrant him heart-whole. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55678]]></link><description><![CDATA[I 'll warrant him heart-whole. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not to hurt our humble brethren in fur, feather or fin, is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43500]]></link><description><![CDATA[After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45556]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51689]]></link><description><![CDATA[As shines the moon in clouded skies, She in her poor attire was seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody investing on the assumption of who's going to win the election is skating on thin ice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody investing on the assumption of who's going to win the election is skating on thin ice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 14 hours, I don't think there were 14 minutes about women. The first commercially viable music in the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 14 hours, I don't think there were 14 minutes about women. The first commercially viable music in the world were the blues women of the 1920s.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58475]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing, as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money talks — but credit has an echo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money talks — but credit has an echo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Embarrassment of riches. [Fr., Embarras des richesse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45713]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any expression of religious or cultural identity by anyone else is forbidden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any expression of religious or cultural identity by anyone else is forbidden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28916</guid></item></channel></rss>