<?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[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring your own boots, work gloves and dress for cold weather. It is going to get dirty out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right, ... And he goes about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matt Dillon was the kind of guy who's low-key but stands for what is right, ... And he goes about seeing that things turn out that way ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â with, of course, a lot of people suffering along the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5988]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior fuerit, detegit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior fuerit, detegit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,  May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light   And never but in unapproached light    Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,     Bright effluence of bright essence increate!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling lies does not work in advertising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58610]]></link><description><![CDATA[My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48597]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know that they know; and those who know that they know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of the value of time--that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities--is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, I'm pretty happy. I wasn't as fast as I wanted to be, but I'm still getting over a broken ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, I'm pretty happy. I wasn't as fast as I wanted to be, but I'm still getting over a broken foot. I think I did well on my passing drills and in the interviews.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688  But upon a day the good providence of God did cast me to Bedford to work on my calling, and in one of the streets of that town I came where there were three or four poor women sitting at a door in the sun and talking about the things of God; and being now willing to hear them discourse, I drew near to hear what they said, for I was now a brisk talker also myself in the matters of religion. But now I may say I heard, but I understood not; for they were far above, out of my reach; for their talk was about a new birth -- the work of God on their hearts. And methought they spake as if Joy did make them speak; they spake with such pleasantness of scripture language and with such appearance of grace in all they said, that they were to me as if they had found a new world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, Discomfort swells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51376]]></link><description><![CDATA[So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, Discomfort swells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43732]]></link><description><![CDATA[A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3447]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been doing silly voices since I was a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36257]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65889]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14842]]></link><description><![CDATA[No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nympholepsy of some fond despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nympholepsy of some fond despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that makes a good warre makes a good peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that makes a good warre makes a good peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down,  A Cloak and Band I then put on, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down,  A Cloak and Band I then put on,   And preached against the Crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like trying [to get pregnant]. I'm not so sure about childbirth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like trying [to get pregnant]. I'm not so sure about childbirth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62517]]></link><description><![CDATA[This yoga is not possible, for the one who eats too much, or who does not eat at all; who sleeps too much, or who keeps awake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,rnAnd therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,rnAnd therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius without education is like silver in the mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius without education is like silver in the mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery will get you everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery will get you everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, ... tired of common sense and civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9028</guid></item></channel></rss>