<?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[Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie,  My musick shows ye have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Spring, full of sweet dayes and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie,  My musick shows ye have your closes,   And all must die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1892]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are saying they train with them, why can't they go to state, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43190]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51112]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain,   And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?  Sweet Helen, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?  Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.--   Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies!--]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2400]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?  For if she will, she will, you may depend on't;   And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse things (than your child)? [Lat., Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis,  Cum facias pejora senex?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't know what was happening. It was crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29185]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't know what was happening. It was crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles   Some natures will endure an immense amount of misery before they feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles   Some natures will endure an immense amount of misery before they feel compelled to look there for help whence all help and healing come. They cannot believe that there is verily an unseen, mysterious power, till the world and all that is in it has vanished in the smoke of despair; till cause and effect are nothing to the intellect, and possible glories have faded from the imagination. Then, deprived of all that made life pleasant or hopeful, the immortal essence, lonely and wretched and unable to cease, looks up with its now unfettered and wakened instinct to the source of its own life -- to the possible God who, notwithstanding all the improbabilities of His existence, may yet perhaps be, and may yet perhaps hear His wretched creature that calls. In this loneliness of despair, life must find The Life: for joy is gone, and life is all that is left; it is compelled to seek its source, its root, its eternal life. This alone remains a possible thing. Strange condition of despair into which the Spirit of God drives a man -- a condition in which the Best alone is the Possible!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And plenty makes us poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47881]]></link><description><![CDATA[And plenty makes us poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13164]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast,  Serene, and resolute, and still,   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast,  Serene, and resolute, and still,   And calm, and self-possessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16607]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Orleans is the soul of the country. We feel it's important to support the city, and it's music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41707]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Orleans is the soul of the country. We feel it's important to support the city, and it's music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We might have gotten the win, but we ran out of tires near the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30213]]></link><description><![CDATA[We might have gotten the win, but we ran out of tires near the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44830]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig--which the pluckers forgot, somehow--  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig--which the pluckers forgot, somehow--  Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7527]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57500]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey;  And these have smaller still to bite 'em,   And so proceed ad infinitum.    Thus every poet in his kind     Is bit by him that comes behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was overwhelmed not only with his story but by the way he told it. You could have heard a pin drop in that room when he finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  He was too great for his disciples. And in view of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7780]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  He was too great for his disciples. And in view of what he plainly said, is it any wonder that all who were rich and prosperous felt a horror of strange things, a swimming of their world at his teaching? Perhaps the priests and the rich men understood him better than his followers. He was dragging out all the little private reservations they had made from social service into the light of a universal religious life. He was like some terrible moral huntsman digging mankind out of the snug burrows in which they had lived hitherto. In the white blaze of this kingdom of his there was to be no property, no privilege, no pride and precedence; no motive indeed and no reward but love. Is it any wonder that men were dazzled and blinded and cried out against him? Even his disciples cried out when he would not spare them the light. Is it any wonder that the priests realized that between this man and themselves there was no choice but that he or priestcraft should perish? Is it any wonder that the Roman soldiers, confronted and amazed by something soaring over their comprehension and threatening all their disciplines, should take refuge in wild laughter, and crown him with thorns and robe him in purple and make a mock Caesar of him? For to take him seriously was to enter upon a strange and alarming life, to abandon habits, to control instincts and impulses, to essay an incredible happiness... Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The willingness to learn new skills is very high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The willingness to learn new skills is very high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40813]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair?  Can guilt like man's be e'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair?  Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven?   Can vice atone for crimes by prayer?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All these tests were ordered by the emergency department, ... I talked to radiologists at the hospital and they said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40694]]></link><description><![CDATA[All these tests were ordered by the emergency department, ... I talked to radiologists at the hospital and they said they have told the ER not to do those tests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like part of my family. It's like one of my children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like part of my family. It's like one of my children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying;  He hath gather'd up gold,   And now he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying;  He hath gather'd up gold,   And now he is dying;--    Old age, begin sighing!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5533]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48161]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48161</guid></item></channel></rss>