<?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[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was an enormous surprise when they called me last Wednesday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was an enormous surprise when they called me last Wednesday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each natural agent works but to this end,-- To render that it works on like itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48608]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece!  Cum sit turpe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece!  Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61433]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50447]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4065]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  Of course, it all depends upon what we are praying for. If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! Though, indeed, it is not easy to say that, with honesty. Still, it may never come at all, thank God. But if you have attained as far as Epictetus--pagan though you would call him--whose daily prayer was this: "O God, give me what Thou desirest for me, for I know that what Thou choosest for me is far better than I could choose"; if you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "the very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both bring a temporary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity. Both bring a permanent ruin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42732]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the little guy, it's getting harder and harder to compete with the big boys. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42434]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the little guy, it's getting harder and harder to compete with the big boys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay, And taught him when to be reserved or free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48743]]></link><description><![CDATA[His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay, And taught him when to be reserved or free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.  He only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47763]]></link><description><![CDATA[My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.  He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest man's the noblest work of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19671]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest man's the noblest work of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through her re-enactments of the stereotypical ways in which women and the female body have typically been depicted, she drew attention to the power of media images to shape ideas of female identity,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a state of mind i could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24601]]></link><description><![CDATA[hey i'd like to daze away to a place no one has known in a state of mind i could call mine, that only i could own where i could hum a tune any time i choose and there's no such thing as time where i can feel no pain, just calm and sane what a place for one to find]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Paul, using the examples of differing opinions about food and days ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist  Paul, using the examples of differing opinions about food and days among the believers in Rome, teaches that Christians should not despise or judge others. He does not advise them to find a happy medium between the contending opinions or to average the two extremes in a compromise. On the contrary, he admonished them that "every one be fully convinced in his own mind" (Rom. 14:5), because God is able to make both stand, as both of them are serving the Lord in obedience to their individual convictions of His will... Each of us has to find personally what is the will of God for his own life, and let all others meet their responsibility to do the same... For God, by giving different commands to many, and putting them together according to His plan, shall accomplish ultimately His complete will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very pleased to watch her, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very pleased to watch her,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I miss reading . . . how I'm situated, you can't read, you just can't, it's not conducive to reading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I miss reading . . . how I'm situated, you can't read, you just can't, it's not conducive to reading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46051]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.   - Clement Walker, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way.   - Clement Walker,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A compliment is verbal sunshine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A compliment is verbal sunshine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook  Blew the gold hair about her eyes,-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little wind that hardly shook The silver of the sleeping brook  Blew the gold hair about her eyes,--   A mystery of mysteries.    So he must often pause, and stoop,     An all the wanton ringlets loop      Behind her dainty ear--emprise       Of slow event and many sighs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was in a weird head space, I was not myself, for sure. I was kind of running around, crazy, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31762]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was in a weird head space, I was not myself, for sure. I was kind of running around, crazy, experiencing things for the first time. That was the first time I had really broken things, and it felt so good - *beep*ing great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's powerful. 'Whipped Cream' happened 40 years ago. It still resonates with people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36484]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's powerful. 'Whipped Cream' happened 40 years ago. It still resonates with people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette is behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not be in favor of doing this without notifying the public and hearing more input. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not be in favor of doing this without notifying the public and hearing more input.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9765]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness beat ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55451]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames In angel whiteness beat away those blushes. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59503]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10696]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is dependent on effort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is dependent on effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62357]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where you have friends you should not go to inns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where you have friends you should not go to inns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a different matter with sheep. Once their wool is waterlogged, they drown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39662]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a different matter with sheep. Once their wool is waterlogged, they drown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor  Stands in worse case of woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor  Stands in worse case of woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love him who tells you your faults in private. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love him who tells you your faults in private.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The outstanding issue is who will pay for the cost overruns. You don't know what you will hit when you start to tunnel. There are a lot of unknowns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29233</guid></item></channel></rss>