<?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[I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me with beating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the watermen that row one way and look another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the watermen that row one way and look another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh;  Oh! fair Variety! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60433]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh;  Oh! fair Variety!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather impacts business across every segment, and this is the most innovative way to hedge that risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weather impacts business across every segment, and this is the most innovative way to hedge that risk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61952]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three million and one hundred thousand Japanese people died in the war, and many foreigners were also victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three million and one hundred thousand Japanese people died in the war, and many foreigners were also victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only wealth is life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42999]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only wealth is life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20474]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man had packed his suitcase and was ready to travel abroad to his holiday residence. Family members long thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man had packed his suitcase and was ready to travel abroad to his holiday residence. Family members long thought he was abroad. That was the reason the man could lie here so long before being found.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3102]]></link><description><![CDATA["Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57241]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite,   And it remembren whan it passed is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, my lords, ceremony was but devised at first To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,  Recanting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, my lords, ceremony was but devised at first To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,  Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;   But where there is true friendship, there needs none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor ; spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52893]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25592]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64360]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58421]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58421</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[Fifty-four forty, or fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fifty-four forty, or fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9628]]></link><description><![CDATA[My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . by evil report and good report . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44453]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . by evil report and good report . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. Byron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart  Is stirred thus in the wound again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart  Is stirred thus in the wound again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   As out of Jesus' affliction came a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary   As out of Jesus' affliction came a new sense of God's love and a new basis for love between men, so out of our affliction we may grasp the splendor of God's love and how to love one another. Thus the consummation of the two commandments was on Golgotha; and the Cross is, at once, their image and their fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45944]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42961]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an awesome piece of equipment, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33660]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an awesome piece of equipment,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it an offence, is it a mistake, is it a crime to take a hopeful view of the prospects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it an offence, is it a mistake, is it a crime to take a hopeful view of the prospects of your own country? Why should it be? Why should patriotism and pessimism be identical? Hope is the mainspring of patriotism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16256]]></link><description><![CDATA[The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hard slap shot from 15 feet. It caught me on the shoulder, but you have to put that aside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32223]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hard slap shot from 15 feet. It caught me on the shoulder, but you have to put that aside in the moment of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.  O poor Robinson Crusoe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.  O poor Robinson Crusoe!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58902]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7588]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He was in Galilee, men could not find Him in Jerusalem; if He was in Jerusalem, men could not find Him in Galilee. His Ascension means that He is perfectly united with God; we are with Him wherever we are present to God; and that is everywhere and always. Because He is "in Heaven" He is everywhere on earth: because He is ascended, He is here now. Our devotion is not to hold us by the empty tomb; it must lift up our hearts to heaven so that we too "in heart and mind thither ascend and with Him continually dwell": it must also send us forth into the world to do His will; and these are not two things, but one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7588</guid></item></channel></rss>