<?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[The most important things in life aren't things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things in life aren't things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh  That filters through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh  That filters through the forest, or the gush   That swells and sinks amid the branches high,--    'Tis all the music of the wind, and we     Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25350]]></link><description><![CDATA[And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. - Isaiah 2:4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perish those who said our good things before we did. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerent.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perish those who said our good things before we did. [Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerent.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't deny anything. He said, ' I'm sorry. ' When you weather a crisis well, it can actually help ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38616]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't deny anything. He said, ' I'm sorry. ' When you weather a crisis well, it can actually help you. Right now is if I had a contract with him, I'd be thinking about using him more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59081]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The City Council kind of looked a gift horse in the mouth. And now we're not sure if the horse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The City Council kind of looked a gift horse in the mouth. And now we're not sure if the horse has gotten away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56768]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18777]]></link><description><![CDATA[What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41615]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was most annoying to me as I returned as a tourist with my granddaughter is how seriously you all take yourselves. Now, I know it is the capital of the free world and a lot of people there have major important jobs but most don't!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18859]]></link><description><![CDATA[For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32730]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just want to tell stories and this is the story I've wanted to tell for the past six years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We laid it on the line. No regrets. We wanted to get it done real bad and we came together. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36369]]></link><description><![CDATA[We laid it on the line. No regrets. We wanted to get it done real bad and we came together. People doubted us in this tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draains, For she hedn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56245]]></link><description><![CDATA[An' I thowt 'twur the will o' the Lord, but Miss Annie she said it wur draains, For she hedn't naw coomfut in 'er, an' arn'd naw thanks fur 'er paains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with Papua is: who has the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of Papuans with the government? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with Papua is: who has the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of Papuans with the government?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,  By winding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,  By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48644]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23400]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been and will always be the case that most Americans who use drugs do so responsibly and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57885]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been and will always be the case that most Americans who use drugs do so responsibly and in moderation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2093]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're uninhibited at an early age, a learning curve is so much higher without that. It's so much fun, they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're uninhibited at an early age, a learning curve is so much higher without that. It's so much fun, they're quick learners. The younger ones seem to learn best through songs and games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a caldron, and at some point it's just going to boil over. We're at the edge, and this administration ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31860]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a caldron, and at some point it's just going to boil over. We're at the edge, and this administration and this Legislature need to do something before we lose (control of) a prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall—and farewell king! -King Richard II. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall—and farewell king! -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have to be honest, it was kind of a 50-50 decision at the time because I was looking forward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have to be honest, it was kind of a 50-50 decision at the time because I was looking forward to signing a contract, but wanted to be as sure as I could that we would be back in the Premiership,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have information that groups of people were bussed from one polling station to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30897]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have information that groups of people were bussed from one polling station to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one before whom you may think aloud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16838]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a new life. He that cannot endure to live to God will as little endure to bear of being born of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief,  And that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief,  And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth,   Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire;    Men, women, and all animals that breathe     Are statues, and not paintings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54931</guid></item></channel></rss>