<?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 crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime of a mother is a heavy burden. [Fr., Le crime d'une mere est un pesant fardeau.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the parent of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the parent of faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62001]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landlady and Tam grew gracious Wi' favours secret, sweet and precious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44314]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only rivalry is with my brother. He plays a lot now. He's getting a lot better. But I still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40314]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only rivalry is with my brother. He plays a lot now. He's getting a lot better. But I still like to take care of business against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat, While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18882]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat, While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some times are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some times are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sir, my circumstances, Being so near the truth as I will make them,  Must first induce you to believe; whose strength   I will confirm with oath, which I doubt not    You'll give me leave to spare when you shall find     You need it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; Remembering without ceasing your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;  Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're 0-9, you've got a lot of flaws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29485]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're 0-9, you've got a lot of flaws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all lies, art is the least untrue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all lies, art is the least untrue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrible he rode alone, With his yemen sword for aid;  Ornament it carried none   But the notches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrible he rode alone, With his yemen sword for aid;  Ornament it carried none   But the notches on the blade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20257]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under NASA policy, it is inappropriate to discuss personnel matters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under NASA policy, it is inappropriate to discuss personnel matters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51604]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the least in want who is the least covetous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7783]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatience, gloom, self-occupation, unloving prejudices, reckless tongue, feverish desires, with all the damage they have caused to Christ's Body, be set aside, because -- because, in spite of all, he longs for God and Eternal Life: then he must set aside and forgive all that the impatience, selfishness, bitter and foolish speech, and sudden yieldings to base impulse by others have caused him to endure. Hardness is the one impossible thing. Harshness to others in those who ask and need the mercy of God sets up a conflict at the very heart of personality and shuts the door upon grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15773]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8432]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At that time we could not use the federal government's marijuana to show that it might be beneficial because NIDA ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33824]]></link><description><![CDATA[At that time we could not use the federal government's marijuana to show that it might be beneficial because NIDA has a mandate from Congress that they could only supply marijuana for research to show that it might be dangerous. Subsequently NIDA has changed their mechanism so we can look for benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to live, not to prepare for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It recognized that a number of people had made housing choices on the assumption that they had raised their children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It recognized that a number of people had made housing choices on the assumption that they had raised their children and had made a conscious decision to chose a lifestyle without (other people's) children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, there is dancing in yonder green bower, A swarm of young midges, they dance high and low;  'Tis a sweet little species that lives but one hour,   And the eldest was born half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is suffering from high blood pressure and he cannot walk properly. His situation is very bad. He is being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29831]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is suffering from high blood pressure and he cannot walk properly. His situation is very bad. He is being given 13 pills a day for his blood pressure, diabetes and other illnesses to prevent strokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned you'll be surprised...as your solitude subsides .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe these headlines are negative for beef processors, particularly Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. beef processor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34815]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe these headlines are negative for beef processors, particularly Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. beef processor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe it's absolutely crucial for us to maintain a strong voice in the national government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe it's absolutely crucial for us to maintain a strong voice in the national government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2545]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask who are guilty. [Lat., Trahit ipse furoris  Impetus, et visum est lenti quaesisse nocentum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64802]]></link><description><![CDATA[One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All reformers are bachelors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53203]]></link><description><![CDATA[All reformers are bachelors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the earthquake struck in October, these helicopters have been crucial in transporting food and non-food items, like medicine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the earthquake struck in October, these helicopters have been crucial in transporting food and non-food items, like medicine and warm clothing and they have helped to prevent many deaths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a novelist, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41917]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a novelist,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though;  He will not see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though;  He will not see me stopping here   To watch his woods fill up with snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,  Wherein the graver had a strife ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55324]]></link><description><![CDATA[This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,  Wherein the graver had a strife   With Nature, to outdo the life:    Oh, could he but have drawn his wit     As well in brass, as he has hit      His face, the print would then surpass       All that was ever writ in brass;        But since he cannot, reader, look         Not on his picture, but his book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is one thing and varnish is another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is one thing and varnish is another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I remember it, the bases were loaded.(asked his reaction to hitting a grand slam) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57537]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I remember it, the bases were loaded.(asked his reaction to hitting a grand slam)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57537</guid></item></channel></rss>